Overview

• The Ministry of Home Affairs has appointed Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and a team of senior legal experts as Special Public Prosecutors in the case against Tahawwur Rana.
• The team will oversee proceedings in the NIA Special Courts, Delhi High Court, and Supreme Court, with a tenure of three years or until the trial concludes.
• Rana, extradited from the United States in April 2025, is accused of assisting David Headley in reconnaissance efforts for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
• The legal team’s appointment is authorized under the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008, and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
• Rana, currently in judicial custody, allegedly collaborated with Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistan's ISI to support the attacks that killed 166 people.