The plea, filed earlier within the day, requests that he be granted entry to amenities for household interplay consistent with the provisions permitted by jail rules.
New Delhi:
Tahawwur Rana, a key accused within the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults conspiracy, moved the Patiala House Court on Tuesday searching for permission to speak along with his household whereas in judicial custody.
The plea, filed earlier within the day, requests that he be granted entry to amenities for household interplay consistent with the provisions permitted by jail rules.
Rana, identified to be an in depth affiliate of David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani—a US citizen and one of many chief conspirators within the 2008 Mumbai assaults—was extradited to India earlier this 12 months. His extradition adopted the US Supreme Court’s dismissal on April 4 of his last enchantment towards being despatched to India.
Shortly after a Delhi courtroom remanded him to judicial custody earlier this month, Rana was transferred to Tihar Jail beneath heavy safety. He was offered earlier than Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Judge Chander Jit Singh a day earlier than the expiration of his NIA custody.
According to a supply throughout the jail, Rana entered Tihar Jail by means of gate quantity 4. After present process a medical examination by jail medical employees, he was assigned to jail quantity two, a high-security facility reserved for inmates thought of high-risk.
“Security personnel have been posted outside his cell, and his activities will be monitored around the clock,” the supply mentioned. Jail authorities haven’t launched any formal assertion on his lodging or the safety preparations in place.
Rana’s extradition and detention symbolize a significant step ahead within the investigation into the 2008 Mumbai assaults, which claimed 166 lives and left lots of injured in coordinated assaults throughout a number of places within the metropolis.
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