- NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Monday extended by 12 more days the NIA custody of
26/11 Mumbai attack accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana.
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- Special NIA judge Chander Jit Singh extended Rana's
custody on NIA's request after his previous 18-day remand got over.
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- Rana was produced in court with his face covered amid
tight security.
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- Senior advocate Dayan Krishnan and special public
prosecutor Narender Mann are representing the National Investigation Agency
(NIA) in the matter which is taking place in chamber.
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- Advocate Piyush Sachdeva from Delhi Legal Services
Authority is representing Rana.
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- In its previous remand order, the court directed the NIA
to conduct Rana's medical examination every 24 hours, and allow him to meet his
lawyer every alternate day.
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- The court allowed Rana to use only a "soft-tip
pen" and meet his lawyer in the presence of the NIA officials, who would
be out of an audible distance.
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- During the arguments on the last occasion, the NIA said
Rana's custody was required to piece together the full scope of the conspiracy,
and submitted he was required to be taken to various locations for retracing
the events that took place 17 years ago.
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- Rana, a close associate of 26/11 main conspirator David
Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a US citizen, was brought to India after
the US Supreme Court on April 4 dismissed his review plea against his
extradition to India.
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- On November 26, 2008, a group of 10 Pakistani terrorists
went on a rampage, carrying out a coordinated attack on a railway station, two
luxury hotels and a Jewish centre, after they sneaked into India's financial
capital using the sea route in the Arabian Sea.
