The Central government has appointed a team of special public prosecutors (SPPs), headed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, to conduct the trial in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case..Pakistani-origin Canadian-American, Tahawwur Rana, is an accused in the case, and he was extradited to India from the United States last month. He is presently in judicial custody till June 6. .Apart from Mehta, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju and senior advocates Dayan Krishnan and Narender Mann will be part of the prosecutorial team.They will represent the National Investigation Agency (NIA) before the special courts at Delhi, the High Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court of India. .Notably, Rana was born in Pakistan in 1961 and served as a doctor in the Pakistani Army, before migrating to Canada in the 1990s and becoming a citizen in the early 2000s.He is believed to be a close aide of Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, who conducted reconnaissance missions for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.Headley is currently lodged in a US prison. He had testified that Rana provided both logistical and financial support for the Mumbai plot. Indian agencies have said that Rana has connections with Pakistan's intelligence service, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Pakistani Army, and the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the main outfit behind the Mumbai terror attack.
The Central government has appointed a team of special public prosecutors (SPPs), headed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, to conduct the trial in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case..Pakistani-origin Canadian-American, Tahawwur Rana, is an accused in the case, and he was extradited to India from the United States last month. He is presently in judicial custody till June 6. .Apart from Mehta, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju and senior advocates Dayan Krishnan and Narender Mann will be part of the prosecutorial team.They will represent the National Investigation Agency (NIA) before the special courts at Delhi, the High Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court of India. .Notably, Rana was born in Pakistan in 1961 and served as a doctor in the Pakistani Army, before migrating to Canada in the 1990s and becoming a citizen in the early 2000s.He is believed to be a close aide of Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, who conducted reconnaissance missions for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.Headley is currently lodged in a US prison. He had testified that Rana provided both logistical and financial support for the Mumbai plot. Indian agencies have said that Rana has connections with Pakistan's intelligence service, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Pakistani Army, and the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the main outfit behind the Mumbai terror attack.
