The Central Government has approved sending National Investigation Agency (NIA) chief and senior IPS officer Sadanand Vasant Date to his parent cadre Maharashtra with immediate effect. This decision was taken on Monday (22 December) and it is being linked to the appointment of the next Director General of Police of Maharashtra.

The tenure of current DGP Rashmi Shukla is ending on 31st December, hence Date’s name is being considered as the strongest contender. The thing to note is that the upcoming elections of BMC in Maharashtra are to be held in January, hence it is being considered very important from the point of view of law and order and security leadership of the state.

Centre’s order and possibilities of DGP appointment

The Appointment Committee of the Union Cabinet i.e. ACC, while approving the proposal of the Home Ministry, has terminated the premature deputation of Sadanand Vasant Date. It has been said in the order that they are being sent back to their parent cadre Maharashtra with immediate effect.

According to an India Today report, the Home Ministry had received a formal request from the Maharashtra government to recall the donor to the state. According to sources, if he is made DGP, he can get a full tenure of two years, which will last till December 2027.

Who is Sadanand Date?

The life of Sadanand Vasant Date, a 1990 batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre, has been an example of struggle and inspiration. Born in an ordinary family, Date financed his education by distributing newspapers in his childhood. His mother worked as a domestic help. Despite limited resources, he gave priority to education and discipline and reached the Indian Police Service. His journey is considered inspiring for the young officers of the police force.

Long experience and bravery of 26/11

In his career, Sadanand Date has held responsible positions in Mumbai Police, CBI and many important units of the state and center. He has been the head of Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad and was also the first Commissioner of Mira-Bhayander-Vasai-Virar Police Commissionerate formed in 2020. He served in sensitive positions like Joint Commissioner Law and Order and Crime Branch in Mumbai Police. In the year 2023, he was appointed Director General of NIA.

During the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, his role in directly combating the terrorists and safely evacuating women and children from Cama and Albless Hospital was historic. For this unique courage, he was awarded the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry.

Former Finance Minister of India and senior Congress party leader P. Chidambaram made a statement about the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, after which there has been political earthquake in the entire country. After Chidambaram’s statement, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is targeting on one side, on the other hand, now his own Congress party leader has also raised questions.

Senior Congress leader Rashid Alvi has accused Chidambaram’s statement and accused the BJP of strengthening. He has asked former Finance Minister Chidambaram what he wants to prove with this statement? Want to say that the UPA government at that time was working under the pressure of America?

What did Rashid Alvi say about the statement of former finance minister,

According to the news agency IANS, senior Congress leader Rashid Alvi said, ‘What does Chidambaram want to say that the UPA government was working under the pressure of America? His statement will directly strengthen the BJP. Anyway, this is a matter of 2008 and now after 16 years, why are they making a statement on it? If they did not want this thing, then they should have resigned from their post.

Rashid Alvi said, ‘There are many such people inside the Congress party, who intend to weaken the Congress. The house caught fire, from the lamp of the house. Why does he want to prove that the UPA government at that time was working under the pressure of America. This means that he wants to strengthen the BJP.

What statement did P. Chidambaram give about 26/11 terror attack,

In fact, senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P. Chidambaram had said in a podcast that he was personally in favor of counter -military action against Pakistan after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, but the government led by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh used diplomatic measures against the neighboring country, which was shown by the Ministry of External Affairs.

He said that powerful countries including America also wanted India not to take war with Pakistan or any military action. Let us know that soon after the terrorist attack in Mumbai on 26 November 2011, P. Chidambaram was appointed as the Union Home Minister, before that he was taking over the charge of the Finance Ministry.

President Draupadi Murmu nominated four prestigious persons for the Rajya Sabha on Sunday (July 13, 2025). These include former diplomatic Harsh Shringla, senior advocate Ujjwal Nikam, historian Meenakshi Jain and social worker Sadanandan Master.

Who is Harsh Shringla?

This list is especially focused on the names of Harsh Shringla and Ujjwal Nikam, which are identified for specific contribution in their respective areas. Harsh Shringla has been a former Foreign Secretary of India and has also served as India’s Ambassador to America. He is considered an expert in diplomacy and strategic affairs.

Who is bright Nikam?

Ujjwal Nikam is counted among the well-known special government lawyers of the country, who have played an effective role in many high-profile and terrorism related matters. His career came into the limelight from the Kalyan bomb blast case in 1991, in which he played an important role in convicting the main accused Ravinder Singh. After this, he was appointed a special government lawyer on behalf of the state government in the 1993 Mumbai -serial bomb blasts case, which proved to be a big turn of his career.

Nikam served in TADA court for more than 14 years and led the prosecution in cases related to terrorism. His most talked about case was the 26/11 Mumbai attack of 2008, in which he firmly put the state government’s favor against Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab. Later, Nikam revealed that he had deliberately spread the matter of Kasab’s demand for mutton biryani in jail so that the anger of the public could get the right direction. This statement was in discussion for a long time.

Who is Dr. Meenakshi Jain?

Dr. Meenakshi Jain is a famous historian of medieval and colonial India. He is a former Associate Professor of History at Gargi College, University of Delhi, former Fellow of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and former member of the Governor Council of Historical Research Council. He is currently a senior fellow of the Indian Social Science Research Council.

The areas of his research include cultural and religious development in medieval and early modern India. His intensive research books are related to historical issues of national importance. Flight of gods and rebirth of temples (2019), war for Rama: Temple case (2017), Sati: Glotist, Baptist Missionaries and Changing Colonial Discourse (2016), Ram and Ayodhya (2013), Parallel Away: Essay on Hindu-Muslim relations (1707-1857) (2010). In the year 2020, Dr. Meenakshi Jain received the Padma Shri Award from the Government of India for his contribution.

Who is Sadanandan Master?

Sadanandan Master has been working in the field of education and social service for decades. He has promoted education and social awareness especially among the disadvantaged sections, scheduled castes and tribes. His image is of a loyal worker working at a ground level.

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Tahawwur Rana News: The mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Tehwwur Rana is currently in the custody of the country’s largest investigating agency NIA. The NIA is constantly questioning him and is engaged in gathering many other information including its masters sitting in Pakistan. Tahwwur Rana was sent on remand of 18 days by the Special NIA Court of Patiala House. The Special Court of NIA, while ordering, said that this conspiracy is not limited to India only, but its wires are connected to international level.

‘Many cities including Delhi targeted’

The court said, “It is necessary to introduce Tahwwur Rana to the evidence that is associated with his rake. It is necessary to face with witnesses and other evidence. The national capital Delhi including many cities of India was targeted. Witnesses, forensic and documentary evidence is necessary.”

Necessary interrogation of Tehwavur- Court

The court said, “There is a need to interrogate Tahwwur deeply. It is a very deep conspiracy, so to get to the bottom of this case, there is a frequent interrogation in custody.” The court has admitted that the matter is related to India’s security and conflict, so the investigating agency should get a full and fair opportunity so that it can present all the facts before the court. “

Investigation agencies started questioning him from Friday (11 April 2025) after extraditing Tahwwur Rana from America and brought to India. He is not supporting NI in investigation. Tehwavur Rana did not remember again and again as he kept answering. Rana is an important link for India’s investigative agencies, as it is believed to have been involved in the conspiracy of Mumbai attacks with Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and ISI.

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Tahawwur rana extradition: Tahwwur Hussain Rana, the mastermind of the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks, has finally been brought to India. He was brought through extradition from the US and now the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is questioning him strongly. In the NIA interrogation, many important questions are being asked about Rana’s relationship with Mumbai attacks, ISI and terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba. Rana is making many shocking revelations in the inquiry, which can add an important link to the conspiracy of 26/11 attacks and the network included. Meanwhile, the NIA is now looking for a mystery girl.

According to a TOI report, when Rana came to India, this woman was also present with her. However, his identity is not yet clear. The NIA suspects that this woman may also be a part of a conspiracy or has important information about Rana’s contacts. According to media reports, this woman lived with Rana like his wife in India.

The court said this about Rana

On the evening of Friday (April 11), the NIA court sent the accused of the Mumbai terror attack to the custody of 18 days by the NIA court. Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jeet Singh gave this decision. He said that continuous questioning of Rana is necessary, because the matter of deep conspiracy in this case is coming out.

He told that from the evidence given, it seems that this conspiracy is spreading outside the boundaries of India and there were plans to target many cities of the country (such as Delhi). He further said, “This matter related to the security of the country is very serious. So it is necessary to completely inquire with Rana to reach the truth.”

NIA team is detecting Rana’s close ones

NIA is also interrogating Rana about those people from whom he was connected and finding whether there was any other terrorist attack plan in India. According to a report by the news agency PTI, government sources said that Rana is not helping the NIA in the inquiry and wasting time by giving a round. He is answering like ‘Don’t know’, ‘not remember’.

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Chidambarama on tahawwur rana extradition: Former Union Home Minister and Congress leader P. Chidambaram has given a statement on the extradition of Tahwwur Rana, saying that I am happy that Tawwur Hussain Rana, one of the main accused of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was extradited to India on April 10, 2025, but it is necessary to tell the whole story. While the Modi government is competing to take credit for this development, the truth is far from their claims.

He said that this extradition is a result of hard, hard working and strategic diplomacy of one and a half decade, which, the beginning, leadership and continuity of which the UPA government ensured coordinating with the US. P Chidambaram said that the first major action in this direction took place on 11 November 2009, when the NIA filed a case against David Coleman Headley (American citizen), Tawwur Rana (Canadian citizen) and others in New Delhi. In the same month, the Foreign Minister of Canada confirmed intelligence cooperation with India, which was the direct result of the efficient foreign policy of the UPA government.

‘UPA government maintained pressure’

The Congress leader further said, the FBI arrested Rana from Chicago in 2009, when he was helping Lashkar-e-Taiba in a conspiracy for a failed terrorist attack in Copenhagen. Although in June 2011, the US court acquitted him of the accusation of directly involved in the 26/11 attack, he was convicted in other terrorist conspiracies and sentenced him to 14 years. The UPA government publicly expressed disappointment on this decision and maintained code-power pressure.

‘NIA team went to America for questioning Headley before 2011’

Chidambaram further said that despite the legal hurdles, the UPA government continued continuously through institutional diplomacy and legal processes. Before the end of 2011, a three -member team of NIA went to America and questioned Headley. Under the mutual legal aid Treaty (MLAT), the US handed over the important evidence of investigation to India, who became part of the NIA charge sheet in December 2011. The NIA special court issued non-bailable warrants and also issued Interpol Red notices against the absconding accused. All this was not for showing, but part of serious and disciplined legal diplomacy.

Chidambaram said that in 2012, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai firmly demanded Rana and Headley’s extradition to US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and Under Secretary Wendy Sherman. By January 2013, Headley and Rana had been sentenced. The UPA government expressed displeasure over Headley’s punishment and reiterated the demand for extradition. Nirupama Rao, the then Ambassador of India to the US, continuously raised the issue to the US administration. This was an ideal example of handling sensitive matters related to international justice in a diplomatic methods.

What happened after changing the government in 2014?

Chidambaram said that even after changing the government in 2014, the process that was going on, lived due to the institutional initiative started during the UPA government. In 2015, Headley offered to become a government witness. In 2016, the Mumbai court gave him a pardon, which strengthened the case against Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Judal. In December 2018, the NIA team went to the US to resolve the legal obstacles related to extradition and in January 2019 it was told that Rana would have to complete his sentence in America. Rana’s release date was fixed at 2023, in which the period of prison already was added. This was not a quick action of the “strong leader”, but the process of justice moving beyond the hard work of years.

He said that when Rana was released on health basis in June 2020, the Government of India immediately sought his extradition. The Biden administration supported India’s request. In May 2023, the US court justified India’s request. Rana filed several petitions against it, including a petition in the US Supreme Court on the basis of Habius Corpus and Double Geopardy. All these petitions were dismissed. The final rejection took place on 21 January 2025, the next day of Donald Trump’s swearing in.

‘Modi government is taking credit’

P Chidambaram, accusing the Modi government of taking credit for this, said that in February 2025, Prime Minister Modi and President Trump stood in a press conference and trying to take credit for the whole matter but the truth is that this achievement is the foundation of the years old UPA government and the hard work done. By 17 February, Indian officials confirmed that Rana was involved in the 26/11 conspiracy with Lashkar and ISI since 2005. Finally on 8 April 2025, US officials handed Rana to Indian agencies, and he reached New Delhi on 10 April.

In his statement, former Home Minister P Chidambaram further said that know the facts clearly: The Modi government neither started this process nor achieved any new success. She is taking advantage of the institutional structure only, which was created by the UPA government with years of hard work, understanding and diplomatic foresight. This extradition is not a victory for any propaganda, but a proof that when the Indian state works with honesty, seriousness and international cooperation, it can also make the world’s most complex criminals in the dock of law.

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Tahawwur rana extradition: 26/11 Tawwur Rana, accused of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, will be extradited from the US to India on Wednesday (9 April 2025). The US Supreme Court rejected the petition of Tehwavur Rana to stop India’s extradition. Sources said that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will bring the mastermind of 26/11 to India to India. It is not clear whether he will be brought to Delhi or Mumbai.

Sources said that he is likely to land in Mumbai, where the plan of 26/11 was carried out. Sources also said that he will spend the first few weeks in NIA custody. Rana is an accused in the 2008 Mumbai attack, in which 157 people were killed.

How did Tahwwur Rana get the way to bring India clear?

The US court rejected his petition to stop his extradition in India. The US Supreme Court rejected Rana’s application, demanding a ban on extradition of India. This application was presented before Chief Justice John Roberts. On 27 February, the Supreme Court’s Associate Justice and the Ninth Circuit Circuit Justice Elena Kagan presented the ’emergency application to stop the pending trial of the habeas corpus petition’.

Rana was going on tricks to stop extradition

Earlier, Rana was demanding to stop his extradition and surrender to India to the litigation (including ending of all the appeals) on the basis of the merits and dedication of his petition filed on 13 February. He argued that India is a violation of the American law and the United Nations anti -torture convention, as it is in danger of torture in India. However, the court did not accept these arguments.

Trump approved extradition after meeting with PM Modi

India had said on 7 March that it is working closely with the US to complete the formalities required for Rana’s extradition. US President Donald Trump approved Rana’s extradition after a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington last month.

Tahawwur rana extradition: The US Supreme Court has dismissed his plea demanding a ban on sending Tawwur Rana to India under extradition to the Mumbai terror attack, which has removed another obstacle over handing over to Indian officials for justice.

Rana, a 64 -year -old Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, is currently closed at Los Angeles’s ‘Metropolitan Detention Center’. He is associated with Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the attacks on 26 November 2008 (26/11). Prior to the attacks, Headley had done Reiki in Mumbai as an employee of Rana’s ‘Immigration Consultancy’.

What was Rana’s application submitted on 27 February?

On 27 February, Rana submitted before the US Supreme Court Associate Judge and ‘Ninth Circuit’ Circuit Judge Elena Kagan ‘Emergency application to stop the pending trial of the habeas corpus petition’. At the beginning of last month, Kagan rejected the application.

What did the court say on the application of Tehwwur Rana?

After this, Rana renewed his application and requested that renewed application be sent to Chief Justice Roberts. An order post on the Supreme Court website states that Rana’s renewed application was listed for the ‘Conference’ of 4 April 2025 and “application” has been sent to the court. “On Monday, a notice said in a notice on the Supreme Court website,” The court has rejected the application. “

In which case Rana was convicted?

Rana was convicted in the US in a case of assisting Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba in a case related to providing assistance in terrorist conspiracy in Denmark. Lashkar is responsible for the Mumbai attack. Eminent Indian-American lawyer Ravi Batra of New York told ‘PTI-Bhasha’ that Rana had applied to the Supreme Court to stop extradition. This application was rejected by Justice Kagan on 6 March. The application was presented to Roberts, “who shared it with the court to use the entire court’s approach.”

Rana had said the danger of torturing him

In the emergency petition, Rana requested that as long as the ongoing case is pending in the US, his extradition process should be banned in India. He had demanded the postponement of the petition filed on 13 February on the basis of its merits. In that petition, Rana argued that his extradited India is a violation of the ‘United Nations Convention’ against the US law and torture, “Because it is a sufficient basis to believe that the petitioner would be in danger of torture if he was extradited to India.”

If sent to India, it is really ‘death sentence

The petition said, “The possibility of harassment in this case is even more as the petitioner is a Muslim of Pakistani origin in the Mumbai attacks.” The petition also states that extraditing him in Indian custody centers due to his ‘serious medical status’ is also ‘really’ death sentence. On January 21, the US Supreme Court rejected the application related to Rana’s original habeas corpus petition seeking a review of the lower court’s decision.

Why PM Modi’s name in Rana’s application?

The application said that on the same day, the newly appointed Foreign Minister Marco Rubio met Foreign Minister S Jaishankar. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Washington to meet Trump on 12 February, Rana’s lawyer received a letter from the State Department, stating that ‘the Foreign Minister has decided to’ hand over ‘to India’ to India ‘according to’ the extradition treaty between the US and India ‘on 11 February 2025.

Trump announced Rana’s extradition

During a joint press conference with Prime Minister Modi at the White House in February, President Donald Trump said that his administration has approved the extradition of ‘very wicked’ Rana, which is looking for Indian law enforcement agencies for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. A total of 166 people including six Americans were killed in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. These attacks were carried out by 10 Pakistani terrorists.