US Supreme Court Approves Extradition of 26/11 Convict Tahawwur Rana to India
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extradition: The US Supreme Court has cleared Mumbai-attack convict Tahawwur Rana’s extradition to India as it dismissed a review petition against his conviction in the case.
Washington: The US Supreme Court has cleared Mumbai-attack convict Tahawwur Rana’s extradition to India as it dismissed a review petition against his conviction in the case.
The US Supreme Court has approved the extradition of Mumbai attack culprit King Khan to India, rejecting his review petition against the move.
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India is demanding the extradition of Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin Khan as he is wanted in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case. This was the country’s last legal opportunity not to be extradited to India. Before that, he had been given legal protection in many federal courts, including the American appeals courts, for the Northern Kingdom.
On November 13, Raana filed a “petition for Prime Minister’s title” before the US Supreme Court. On January 21, a day after Donald Trump took oath as the American President, the Supreme Court rejected it.
“The petition will be accepted,” the Supreme Court said.
64-year-old Rana is currently under detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.
Earlier, the US government had argued in the court that the petition for extradition should be rejected. US Solicitor General Elizabeth Bea Prelogar said this in her petition filed in the Supreme Court on December 16. She said that in this case, Rana cannot get extradition to India. In his petition for a certificate of right to review the decision of the Joint States Court of Appeals for the ninth government, Rana had argued that he was tried in a federal court in northern Illinois (Chicago) on charges related to the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai and was acquitted. “India now wants to extradite him for prosecuting the accused on the ground of common conduct in the Chicago case,” it said. “The Government does not believe that all of the conduct for which India is seeking redress was covered by the Government’s prosecution in this case. For example, India’s allegations of racketeering are partly based on conduct that was not alleged in the United States: the use of false information in an application to officially open a branch office of the Insurance Law Centre presented by the petitioner to the Reserve Bank of India,” US solicitor. The general said so.
“It is not clear what the verdict in the case – which includes conspiracy charges and was a little difficult to understand – means whether he has been held guilty or released for specific conduct accused by India,” Prelogar said.
Rana is believed to be linked to the Pakistani-American terror group David Kollam, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Six Americans were involved in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks A total of 166 people were killed. In this attack, 10 Pakistani terrorists attacked important places in Mumbai for more than 60 hours and killed people.