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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, Ranas 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. It was closed because it was Friday and so he had to stay the night and now the Indian press has gone and harassed our family in India asking them all sorts of questions about Rana, he said,adding all his five children are doctors and are all honest.
They have never even smoked a cigarette. I do not know how this happened.
Prosecutors allege that Rana was in Mumbai and traveled to Dubai five days before the November,2008,attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people,including foreigners. They have also submitted as evidence an Al-Qaeda DVD recovered from Ranas house that he says was given to him by Headley.
