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  • 4/10/2025
Flight carrying 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana has landed in Delhi after which he will be taken to headquarters of NIA. The terror attack mastermind will now undergo a trial at a special NIA court in Delhi. Since the case will now be heard in Delhi, he will not be sent to Mumbai.
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00:00Tahavar Hussain Rana, that special aircraft, has just landed in Delhi.
00:05Finally, so 17 years, close to 17 years after 2611 Mumbai terror attacks.
00:11A week before the terror attacks, this terrorist had left India, he left Mumbai.
00:17Finally, in 2025, Tahavar Hussain Rana has now been hauled back to India.
00:25He has been hauled back after due court legal process in the United States of America.
00:32Even the Supreme Court in the United States turned down his plea.
00:37This man, that man you see on your television screen, Captain Tahavar Hussain Rana of Pakistan Army,
00:45of course a deserter from Pakistan Army who was living initially in Canada.
00:49He had a Canadian passport, opened up an office in Chicago, Plan 2611.
00:54Incidentally, it was in 2005 that he and David Coleman Hedley put together that plan
00:59or at least wanted to move forward on that plan to target India and multiple locations in India.
01:05It wasn't just 126.11.
01:06As part of their gazvai hint against India, they wanted to target multiple locations in India.
01:12Finally, that terrorist has landed in Delhi.
01:16He's been hauled in.
01:17Remember, this is relentless efforts by the government to ensure that a terrorist is brought back to face justice.
01:28I have India Today's biggest team of reporters who are tracking this story very closely,
01:33joining us on this special broadcast, giving us more information.
01:37But Tahavar Hussain Rana finally lands in Delhi.
01:42He will be taken to the NIA headquarters.
01:45I have Shivani Sharma joining me on this show.
01:47I have Muneesh Pandey joining me on this show.
01:50And our reporters are giving us more information.
01:52Tell me, what is the latest information?
01:54What's the latest information that we have?
01:56Amit Bharadwaj joins me on the show.
02:05Amit, bring us the latest.
02:09We are given to understand through our sources at this point in time
02:12is that Tahavar Hussain Rana has landed in India, in Delhi.
02:18And this is a big, big development because we have been, you know, continuously waiting for these developments.
02:25The special team of the NIA was en route carrying Tahavar Hussain Rana from US to India.
02:40And it was kept unclear as to whether he will be landing in Delhi or taken to Mumbai.
02:45But this morning, it became really clear with the security deployment,
02:49the kind of detailed security deployment that was done at the airport facilities,
02:53at the NIA headquarters, as well as the court in the national capital
02:57that Tahavar Hussain Rana is being brought to Delhi.
03:00And what we are given to understand that the flight has landed.
03:03Now we are waiting for that official word on, you know, what is the protocol that's going to be followed.
03:10Also, the moment he lands in India on the Indian soil,
03:14he will be put under NIA arrest.
03:17So that is why the clarity from the official sources are, is, is awaited.
03:22But sources are certainly, you know, telling us at this moment that the flight has landed in India.

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