Kochi: A NIA court on Friday sent Mumbai attacks mastermind Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, to 18 days National Investigative Agency (NIA) custody in connection with conspiracy, media reports said.
Rana was produced before the NIA Special Court at Patiala House after formally placing him under arrest on his arrival at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport on Thursday
He was brought from Patiala House courts complex to the NIA headquarters in a heavily-secured motorcade comprising Delhi Police’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and other security personnel.
The NIA had sought 20-days’ custody of Rana who will be kept in a highly secured cell inside the anti-terror agency’s head office at CGO complex here, the reports said.
Rana, who is a Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman, is accused of conspiring with those including operatives of designated terrorist organisations to carry out the terror siege Mumbau on November 26, 2008, when a group of 10 Pakistani terrorists sneaked into Mumbai through Arabian Sea.
They went on a rampage attacking a railway station, two luxury hotels and a Jewish centre killing 166 people and injuring 238.
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