By Admin 
Tahawwur rana extradition: The US Supreme Court has dismissed his plea demanding a ban on sending Tawwur Rana to India under extradition to the Mumbai terror attack, which has removed another obstacle over handing over to Indian officials for justice.
Rana, a 64 -year -old Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, is currently closed at Los Angeles’s ‘Metropolitan Detention Center’. He is associated with Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the attacks on 26 November 2008 (26/11). Prior to the attacks, Headley had done Reiki in Mumbai as an employee of Rana’s ‘Immigration Consultancy’.
What was Rana’s application submitted on 27 February?
On 27 February, Rana submitted before the US Supreme Court Associate Judge and ‘Ninth Circuit’ Circuit Judge Elena Kagan ‘Emergency application to stop the pending trial of the habeas corpus petition’. At the beginning of last month, Kagan rejected the application.
What did the court say on the application of Tehwwur Rana?
After this, Rana renewed his application and requested that renewed application be sent to Chief Justice Roberts. An order post on the Supreme Court website states that Rana’s renewed application was listed for the ‘Conference’ of 4 April 2025 and “application” has been sent to the court. “On Monday, a notice said in a notice on the Supreme Court website,” The court has rejected the application. “
In which case Rana was convicted?
Rana was convicted in the US in a case of assisting Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba in a case related to providing assistance in terrorist conspiracy in Denmark. Lashkar is responsible for the Mumbai attack. Eminent Indian-American lawyer Ravi Batra of New York told ‘PTI-Bhasha’ that Rana had applied to the Supreme Court to stop extradition. This application was rejected by Justice Kagan on 6 March. The application was presented to Roberts, “who shared it with the court to use the entire court’s approach.”
Rana had said the danger of torturing him
In the emergency petition, Rana requested that as long as the ongoing case is pending in the US, his extradition process should be banned in India. He had demanded the postponement of the petition filed on 13 February on the basis of its merits. In that petition, Rana argued that his extradited India is a violation of the ‘United Nations Convention’ against the US law and torture, “Because it is a sufficient basis to believe that the petitioner would be in danger of torture if he was extradited to India.”
If sent to India, it is really ‘death sentence
The petition said, “The possibility of harassment in this case is even more as the petitioner is a Muslim of Pakistani origin in the Mumbai attacks.” The petition also states that extraditing him in Indian custody centers due to his ‘serious medical status’ is also ‘really’ death sentence. On January 21, the US Supreme Court rejected the application related to Rana’s original habeas corpus petition seeking a review of the lower court’s decision.
Why PM Modi’s name in Rana’s application?
The application said that on the same day, the newly appointed Foreign Minister Marco Rubio met Foreign Minister S Jaishankar. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Washington to meet Trump on 12 February, Rana’s lawyer received a letter from the State Department, stating that ‘the Foreign Minister has decided to’ hand over ‘to India’ to India ‘according to’ the extradition treaty between the US and India ‘on 11 February 2025.
Trump announced Rana’s extradition
During a joint press conference with Prime Minister Modi at the White House in February, President Donald Trump said that his administration has approved the extradition of ‘very wicked’ Rana, which is looking for Indian law enforcement agencies for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. A total of 166 people including six Americans were killed in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. These attacks were carried out by 10 Pakistani terrorists.