Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana. PTI File
Within the supplementary chargesheet filed in opposition to Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana within the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults case, town police have talked about that he stayed for 2 days at a lodge in suburban Powai until 21 November, 2008, days earlier than the assaults, an official stated.
The Mumbai police’s crime department on Monday submitted the over 400-page chargesheet, the fourth within the case to date, earlier than a particular court docket listening to the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) instances.
Rana, presently below detention in the USA, faces a number of fees for his function within the Mumbai assaults and is understood to be related to Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of many principal conspirators of the 26/11 strikes.
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The chargesheet mentions that Tahawwur Hussain Rana got here to India on 11 November, 2008 and stayed within the nation until 21 November. He spent two of nowadays on the Renaissance Resort in Powai, a senior official of the Mumbai police’s crime department stated on Tuesday.
“We have found documentary evidence against Rana and some statements in which his role in the conspiracy was established. The documentary evidence shows that Rana was actively involved in the conspiracy with Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 strikes,” he stated.
He (Rana) was the one who helped Headley get an Indian vacationer visa primarily based on faux paperwork, the official added.
Rana allegedly supplied logistic assist to the Lashkar-e-Taiba in finishing up the 26/11 terror assaults, he stated.
“The crime branch has found email communications between Headley and Rana,” he stated, including that in one of many emails associated to 26/11 terror assaults, Headley requested about Main Iqbal’s electronic mail id, he stated.
Main Iqbal, an operative of the Pakistani intelligence company Inter-Providers Intelligence (ISI), was named as accused within the 26/11 terror plot case, he stated.
A complete of 166 individuals have been killed when 10 terrorists from Pakistan arrived by sea route on November 26, 2008, and laid a greater than 60-hour siege within the monetary capital throughout which they focused town’s landmarks, a hospital and a Jewish centre, amongst different locations.
Among the many 10 terrorists was Ajmal Kasab, who was caught alive and later placed on trial and sentenced to demise by a particular court docket.
He was hanged to demise at Pune’s Yerawada central jail in November 2012, two years after being held responsible within the case by the court docket.