“Rana Ought to Be Hanged”: 26/11 Survivor, Woman Who Recognized Ajmal Kasab
New Delhi:
Tahawwur Rana, an accused within the 2008 Mumbai terror assaults, “needs to be hanged as a result of he’s a terrorist”, Devika Rotawan, one of many survivors of that tragic day, instructed NDTV Wednesday.
“As soon as Rana is introduced again the Indian authorities will get data on different co-conspirators of the assault and the individuals who helped the attackers in India. Rana needs to be hanged as a result of he’s a terrorist and was concerned within the planning of the 26/11 assaults,” Ms Rotawan mentioned.
Of Pakistani origin, Rana is being extradited from the US on a particular aircraft anticipated late tonight or early tomorrow. He’ll then be introduced in a Delhi court docket earlier than being a switch to Mumbai.
Sources within the Mumbai Police haven’t, nonetheless, been knowledgeable of a date and time.
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In February Ms Rotawan had expressed happiness at Rana’s (then) impending extradition.
“I’ve heard… Rana will likely be extradited. Permission (by US authorities) has been granted… however when will he truly be delivered to India? That’s my query. I’ll solely be pleased as soon as he’s right here and justice is served,” she instructed information company IANS.
26/11 Terror Assault Hero
Devika Rotawan was 9 years outdated when she was shot within the leg throughout one part of the fear assault on Mumbai – on the metropolis’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj bus terminus.
Struggling bodily and psychological trauma, she nonetheless stood up in an open courtroom – on crutches – and recognized terrorist Ajmal Qasab as the person who shot her.
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Describing the occasions on that night time, she mentioned: “There was a loud explosion… my father mentioned we must always go away and we began operating in a single route… my brother ran in one other route.”
“Simply as we had been leaving, I noticed two individuals firing at individuals. I obtained a bullet damage in my proper leg,” she mentioned, including, “My leg broke, and blood spilled out.”
26/11 Mumbai Terror Assaults
The Mumbai terror assaults killed over 160 individuals.
Rana, who is understood to have hyperlinks to banned terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistan’s Inter-Companies Intelligence, is accused of serving to one other terrorist – Pakistani-American David Headley, who’s now in jail within the US – plan these dastardly strikes.
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In response to the fees towards him, Rana, 64, assisted Headley in some ways, together with organising an ‘immigrant regulation centre’ in Mumbai as a entrance for his or her terrorist actions.
He additionally visited India in November 2008.
Rana has been charged underneath sections referring to legal conspiracy, waging struggle towards the Authorities of India, homicide, forgery, and related sections underneath the stringent anti-terror regulation, the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act.
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