Tahawwur Rana is honest and innocent, says family

Chicago, January 26: The family of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Tahawwur Rana, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of plotting the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, feels he has been framed in the terror plots and is “honest” and “innocent”.

“All I know is that Rana is innocent… He is very honest and god fearing. He will share his last morsel with a man in need. I do not know how he got involved in all this,” Rana’s father-in-law Rana M Akhtar told a TV channel here.

Akhtar said Rana had gone to Pakistan since his grandmother had died. Since he was in Pakistan, he decided to go to India as well. He applied for a visa and went to India after he got the visa, Akhtar said.

“Once there, he decided to visit the Taj. What is wrong with that? Everybody wants to see the Taj.

–Agencies