Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, arrested by FBI on terror charges, spent his 49th birthday today behind the confines of Chicago prison facility as his bail plea was not heard by the court last week.
The hopes of Rana to celebrate his birthday with his family had dashed after he failed to secure release despite filing a motion before a Chicago court saying he did not have enough money to play "hide and seek" game.
In a motion filed in a federal court seeking quashing of his detention order, Rana has claimed that he was a Pakistani army deserter and will not risk going there because he might be arrested and court-martialled.
Rana, who was born this day in 1961, has been accused of plotting an attack on a Danish newspaper that published the cartoons of Prophet Mohammad and a suspect in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
He was denied bail last month by a US judge who said he might flee the country if released on bond to escape a possible 30-year prison term.
Rana, who has been in custody since October 18 last year, has been kept in Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago which is an administrative facility designed to house prisoners of all security levels, appearing before Federal courts.
His family is claiming that charges against him are baseless and he has been framed. His brother Abbas Rana who is a reporter with Hill Times weekly, has mentioned that his brother was innocent.
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