2008 Mumbai attacks: US Supreme Court clears extradition of Tahawwur Rana to India
In May 2023, a district court in the United States had ordered Rana’s extradition.
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The United States’ Supreme Court has cleared the extradition of Tahawwur Rana, one of the persons accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case, to India, The Hindu reported on Saturday.
Rana, a Pakistan-origin Canadian businessman, is in jail in Los Angeles awaiting his extradition. He is wanted in India for his alleged role in the attacks on November 26, 2008, when 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists took a sea route from Pakistan to Mumbai and attacked several locations across the city.
The attack resulted in the death of 166 persons, including 26 foreign citizens.
In May 2023, a US district court ordered his extradition to India in connection with the matter, the Hindustan Times reported.
Rana challenged his extradition and lost legal battles in several federal courts, including the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. On November 13, he filed a petition for a writ of certiorari before the Supreme Court.
A writ of certiorari is a legal document that asks a higher court to review a decision taken by a lower court.
His petition was denied by the Supreme Court on January 21, NDTV reported.
Rana is allegedly associated with Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, also known as “Daood Gilani”, who was one of the chief conspirators of the attacks in Mumbai, The Hindu reported. Rana allegedly helped...
