 "Dayan Krishnan and Narender Mann: Meet the lawyers chosen in the Tahawwur Rana case")
Tahawwur Rana, a key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, was extradited to India from the United States.
Rana, the 64-year-old Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin who worked closely with David Coleman Headley, landed in Delhi in a special plane on Thursday evening.
Now, all eyes are on the men who will prosecute the National Investigation Agency case against Rana – Dayan Krishnan and Narender Mann.
But who are these men? What do we know about them?
Let’s take a closer look:
Dayan Krishnan
As per India Today, Krishnan is one of India’s most experienced lawyers.
He has years of experience appearing before the Supreme Court.
Krishnan in 1993 graduated from the National Law School of India University.
As per Times Now, Krishnan kicked off his legal career under senior advocate and former Supreme Court justice Santosh Hegde.
He began practicing on his own in 1999.
That same year, he contributed to the Justice JS Verma Commission.
He has since appeared in a slew of high-profile cases including the Parliament attack trial the Cauvery water dispute and the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case.
Krishnan was designated a senior advocate by the Delhi High Court in 2014.
As per Indian Express, Krishnan is an expert in extradition law.
Which is why perhaps he has taken the lead in a number of such cases including against Rana in the US, as special public prosecutor for the extradition of Headley and special counsel for the CBI in the extradition of ex-Navy officer Ravi Shankaran.
Krishnan was part of the team which questioned Headley in the US.
He has represented several government agencies including the Delhi Police and the Wrestling Federation of India.
Sources told PTI Krishnan was instrumental in securing Rana’s extradition.
The proceedings, the source said, saw a spirited legal fight between Krishnan and another extradition veteran Paul Garlick QC, who was representing Rana .
Garlick, the source said, argued that it was a case of double jeopardy. Krishnan, on the contrary, argued that an accused’s conduct didn’t determine the circumstances but the elements of the crime.
Double jeopardy, in legal parlance, means an accused being punished twice for the same offence or crime.
The court ultimately sided with Krishnan.
Narender Mann
As per Indian Express, Narender Mann, 58, is an ex-CBI counsel.
Mann represented the CBI as a special public prosecutor in the Delhi High Court from January 2011 to April 2019.
With regard to the Rana case, he has been designated a special public prosecutor for three years.
Mann graduated from Delhi University’s Campus Law Centre in 1990.
He has appeared in several high-profile cases including the Bofors case, the 2018 SSC paper leak, the Jain Diary Hawala scandal, the Commonwealth Games cases and the AICTE scam.
He also appeared in the case of an attempted assassination of Chief Justice of India AN Ray in 1975.
That conviction was upheld by the Delhi High Court in 2014.
The prosecution team will also comprise advocates Sanjeevi Sheshadri and Sridhar Kale aside from the NIA counsel.
With inputs from agencies
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