New Delhi: A Delhi court has granted Tahawwur Hussain Rana, an accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, permission to make a phone call to his family. This decision was made on Monday by Special Judge Chander Jit Singh, who allowed the call as a one-time exception.
The phone call will be conducted in accordance with the jail manual and will be supervised by the authorities at Tihar Jail, as stipulated by the judge.
Additionally, the court has requested a fresh health report on Rana within ten days from the date of the ruling. The judge also directed the jail authorities to submit a report clarifying their position on whether Rana should be permitted regular phone calls.
Rana, a 64-year-old businessman of Pakistani origin and Canadian nationality, is currently in judicial custody. He is a close associate of David Coleman Headley, the main conspirator behind the 26/11 attacks, who is a U.S. citizen. Rana was extradited to India after the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed his review petition against the extradition on April 4.
Advocate Piyush Sachdeva from the Delhi Legal Services Authority has been appointed to represent Rana in this case.
Rana faces serious charges of conspiring with Headley and operatives from designated terrorist organizations, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami (HUJI), along with other co-conspirators based in Pakistan. Together, they are accused of orchestrating the three-day terror siege that targeted India’s financial capital.
On November 26, 2008, a group of ten Pakistani terrorists launched a coordinated attack on multiple locations, including a railway station, two luxury hotels, and a Jewish center, after infiltrating India via the Arabian Sea. The assault resulted in the tragic loss of 166 lives over nearly 60 hours.
