The US Supreme Court rejected Tahawwur Rana’s last plea to block his extradition. He will now be sent to India to face trial for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
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US: In a major step toward justice for the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the Supreme Court of the United States has rejected the final attempt made by Tahawwur Rana, who is accused of being involved in the attacks, to stop his extradition to India.
This decision has brought him even closer to being handed over to Indian authorities for trial.
The Mumbai attacks, which began on November 26, 2008, lasted for three days and targeted important places like hotels, a train station, and a Jewish center. These deadly attacks killed 166 innocent people. According to Indian officials, the group behind these attacks was Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist terrorist group based in Pakistan.
However, the Pakistan government has denied any involvement in the attacks.
Tahawwur Rana, who is originally from Pakistan but is a Canadian citizen, was living in Chicago, USA at the time. In 2011, he was found guilty in the United States and was given a 13-year jail sentence. At present, he is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.
Rana, who is 64 years old, has strong links with David Coleman Headley, another person who played a major role in planning the 26/11 attacks. Headley, who has Pakistani and American roots, is believed to have visited Mumbai before the attack to gather information. He pretended to be working for Rana’s immigration consultancy business during these visits.
In the US, Rana was convicted for supporting a terror plot in Denmark and also for helping Lashkar-e-Taiba, the same group blamed for the Mumbai attacks.
To delay his extradition, Rana had filed an urgent request in the Supreme Court on February 27. This was called an-
“Emergency Application For Stay Pending Litigation of Petition For Writ of Habeas Corpus”.
The request was submitted to Justice Elena Kagan, who is the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and is also in charge of the Ninth Circuit.
Justice Kagan had earlier rejected this request.
Rana then tried again by renewing the same request, officially called “Emergency Application for Stay Pending Litigation of Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus previously addressed to Justice Kagan,” and asked that it be forwarded to Chief Justice John Roberts instead.
Now, the official website of the Supreme Court has published an update saying,
“Application denied by the Court.”
Earlier this year, in February, during a press conference held at the White House alongside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former US President Donald Trump made a strong statement about Rana’s case. Trump clearly said that his government had approved Rana’s extradition to India.
He had declared,
“I am pleased to announce that my administration has approved the extradition of one of the plotters and one of the very evil people of the world, having to do with the horrific 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack to face justice in India. So he is going to be going back to India to face justice.”
With this final rejection from the US Supreme Court, all legal options in the US for Tahawwur Rana have ended. His extradition to India is now expected to happen soon, where he will have to answer for his alleged role in one of the deadliest terror attacks on Indian soil.
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