Headley,Rana to be arraigned next week

Further,a status hearing that was scheduled for Wednesday 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.