India on Friday said it would press on with attempts to try a Pakistan-born Canadian citizen over the 2008 Mumbai attacks, despite a US jury finding him not guilty of involvement. The country’s internal security secretary, U.K. Bansal, said the government in New Delhi was “disappointed” that Tahawwur Hussain Rana was acquitted at a court in Chicago Thursday. But he added: “I do not see it as a setback as our case is still under investigation.”
Rana was accused of allowing his immigration business to be used as cover for his friend David Coleman Headley to scout out potential targets in India’s financial and entertainment capital before the attacks. Headley testified against him but a jury on Thursday found there was insufficient evidence to convict.
The Indian government would review the verdict, Bansal told reporters in the capital, adding that federal investigators were still preparing a case against both Rana and Headley, with a view to trying them in India.
“When the probe is over, we will produce the evidence in the court,” he said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
