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1. Tahawwur Rana, 64, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency after landing. His flight, which took off from Los Angeles in the US yesterday, landed in Delhi’s Palam technical area. It is likely that after the preliminary formalities, he would be taken to the NIA headquarters. He will also be presented to Delhi’s Patiala House court.
2. But he could later be placed in Delhi’s high security Tihar jail and may be eventually moved to Mumbai to face trial, sources said.
3. He has been charged with criminal conspiracy, waging war against the government of India, murder and forgery and under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
4. Rana’s return was preceded by a meeting between Union Home Minister Amit Shah, foreign minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval yesterday. Mr Shah later said the extradition is a “big success of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diplomacy”.
5. Rana’s extradition takes place two months after US President Donald Trump, during PM Modi’s visit, announced that his administration has approved the extradition of the “very evil” Rana. “He is going to be going back to India to face justice,” President Trump said.
6. A Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin based in Chicago, Tahawwur Rana is accused of playing a key role in the 2008 attacks in the country’s financial capital that cost 166 lives. Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, prime accused in the attack, said Rana had extended logistical and financial support for the terror operation.
7. The chargesheet says Rana had assisted Headley in many ways, including setting up the Immigrant Law Centre in Mumbai. Headley had travelled to several Indian cities, including Delhi, Jaipur, Pushkar, Goa and Pune and Mumbai, as a representative of the firm. Rana had also visited India in November 2008.
8. In October 2009, the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the US arrested Rana in Chicago for providing support to an aborted plan to attack a newspaper in Danish capital Copenhagen and providing material support to Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was responsible for the Mumbai attacks. Two years later, he was convicted.
9. Rana had appealed to US courts challenging the extradition to India, saying he suffers from multiple ailments, including abdominal aortic aneurysm at immediate risk of rupture, Parkinson’s disease with cognitive decline, and possible bladder cancer. But the courts had turned down his petition, paving the way for his extradition.
10. The three-day attack that devastated India’s financial capital in 2008 had targeted hotels, a train station and a Jewish center, the Chabad House. India has said that Lashkar-e-Taiba orchestrated the attacks. Of the 10 terrorists who took part in the attack, only one, Ajmal Kasab, was caught alive and was hanged on November 21, 2012.

The extradition of Tahawwur Rana, brought back to India to face the law for his role in 26/11 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, is a justice not for the martyrs, but every Indian, said Hemant Bhavdhankar, the Mumbai police inspector who was instrumental in the arrest of Ajmal Kasab, the only one of the 10 terrorists who unleashed havoc on the country’s financial capital for three days in November 2008. Click Here For Tahawwur Rana Extradition Live Updates

The retired officer had lost one of his colleagues, sub-inspector Tukaram Omble, in the encounter that led to the arrest. Asked if he has managed to get over the trauma of that day, he said he is still overcome with emotion when he passes that spot. 

“I bow to the statue of Tukaram Omble ji. We are here today because of him only. That is what I personally feel,” he told NDTV in an exclusive interview.

On November 26, 2008. Mr Bhavdhankar and his team were manning a checkpost after the police received information that the terrorists had set off from Nariman Point. 

Abu Ismail and Ajmal Kasab were fleeing in a hijacked Skoda car towards Girgaon chowpatty. His team, he said, got a message from the control room and from there two teams of eight police officers reached the checkpost. 

While some stood behind the barricades, Mr Bhavdhankar and a few others stood at the road divider. 

The Skoda, he said, came at 12.30 and stopped 50 feet away from the checkpost. The driver, Abu Ismail, did not listen to the police instruction and instead tried to take a U-turn at high speed.

“That was the only option for them, since the other roads were barricaded. They could only take a U-turn and go back towards Nariman point, from where they came,” Mr Bhavdhankar said.

“On Abu Ismail’s instructions, Kasab took his Hungarian jacket and wiped the blood from his face. By that time, I was sure that they were the terrorists. I alerted my team and tried to approach and nab Abu Ismail. He opened fire immediately,” he said. 

As a colleague shot one round, Mr Bhavdhankar shot three at Abu Ismail. It was the first time he had shot off his service revolver in an encounter situation, he said. The joint efforts of the two officers eliminated Abu Ismail. 

“Kasab, who was sitting next to the driver, pretended to surrender, putting his hands up. As we slowly approached Abu Ismail, Kasab opened the door and got off. At the same time, Tukaram ji and the team rushed to catch him. Kasab opened fire which hit Tukaram. But he did not release his grip over Kasab and we could catch him successfully,” Mr Bhavdhankar said.

“We survived because of Tukaram Omble’s sacrifice. Fifteen officers survived,” he added.

Tukaram Omble was awarded a posthumous Ashok Chakra, the country’s highest peacetime gallantry award, for his bravery during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. His brother, Eknath Omble, has called for a death sentence for Tahawwur Rana, who is expected to reach Delhi this evening. 

Rana, a 64-year-old Pakistani-Canadian national settled in the US, had provided logistic, financial and other assistance to David Headley, the prime accused in the case. 

Rana is charged under sections relating to criminal conspiracy, waging war against the government of India, murder and forgery and relevant sections under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.