A US court has sentenced Tahawwur Rana, an accomplice of the Mumbai attack terrorist David Headley, to 14 years in jail for providing material support to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and for backing a plot to attack a Danish newspaper. The Chicago federal court also said that Rana's jail term will be followed by five years of supervised release. The US District Judge pronounced his order after hearing from both the government attorney and those of 52-year-old Rana, during which the two argued on the length of imprisonment.
Rana was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to a plot from October 2008 to October 2009 to commit murder in Denmark and providing material support to the LeT, from late 2005 to October 2009.