David Headley, Tahawwur Rana to be arraigned next week

Yoshita Singh

Chicago, Jan 21 (PTI) Terror suspects David Coleman
Headley and Tahawwur Rana, indicted on charges of being
involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, will be arraigned in a
court here next week.

The arraignment of Rana and Headley was initially
scheduled for on Thursday but have now been rescheduled. While
Pakistani-Canadian citizen Rana will be arraigned on January
25, Pakistani-American Headley's arraignment has been set for
January 27 before US Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys in US
District Court, Northern District of Illinois, US Attorney’s
Office spokesman Randall Samborn said.
Further, a status hearing that was scheduled for
Thursday in Rana's appeal of detention has also been cancelled
and not yet been rescheduled, Samborn said.
Chicagoans Headley and Rana were indicted on January
14 by a federal grand jury on charges of being involved in the
Mumbai attacks and planning a terror strike against a Danish
newspaper in Copenhagen.
The 12-count superseding indictment contains the
identical charges that were filed against Headley on December
7 while adding Rana as a defendant in three of the counts
charging material support of the terrorism plots in Denmark
and India, as well as in support of terrorist organisation
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.

Ilyas Kashmiri, an allegedly influential terrorist
organisation leader in Pakistan who is alleged to be in
regular contact with leaders of al Qaeda, and Abdur Rehman
Hashim Syed (Abdur Rehman), a retired major in the Pakistani
military were also indicted.
Headley had in December pleaded not guilty to the
charges filed against him. Rana has been in custody since his
arrest last year and has been denied bond. PTI YAS
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