2008 Mumbai attacks ‘co-conspirator’ Tahawwur Rana arrives in India after being extradited from US

A special flight carrying Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-origin Canadian citizen accused of involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, landed in New Delhi on Thursday, The Hindu reported. Rana has been brought to India after having been extradited from the United States.

He will likely be housed in Tihar jail in the national capital after reaching India, the newspaper reported quoting unidentified prison officials.

Rana is wanted in India for his alleged role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, which left 166 people dead, including 26 foreign nationals. Ten attackers, linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, had traveled by sea from Pakistan to Mumbai, targeting several locations across the city.

The Union home ministry, in a late night gazette notification on Wednesday, appointed advocate Narender Mann as the special prosecutor representing the National Investigation Agency in the case for three years.

In May 2023, a US district court ordered Rana’s extradition to India in connection with the matter.

Rana challenged his extradition and lost legal battles before the US Supreme Court and several federal courts, including the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.

On January 21, the US Supreme Court denied his petition challenging his extradition.

Union Home Minister called Rana’s extradition a “big success of Prime Minister Modi’s diplomacy”.

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