26/11: US SC rejects Rana plea for stay on extradition | India News

NEW DELHI: The US Supreme Court has denied Mumbai terror assault accused Tahawwur Rana‘s utility looking for a stay on his extradition to India. Rana, 64, a Canadian nationwide of Pakistani origin, is at present lodged within the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. He had submitted an ‘Emergency utility for stay pending litigation of petition for writ of habeas corpus’ on Feb 27, with Elena Kagan, affiliate justice of the Supreme Court of the US and Circuit Justice for the Ninth Circuit.
Last month, Kagan had denied the appliance. Rana had then renewed his emergency utility beforehand addressed to Justice Kagan and requested {that a} renewed utility be directed to Chief Justice Roberts.
An order on the Supreme Court web site famous that Rana’s renewed utility has been “distributed for conference of 4/4/2025” and “application” has been “referred to the court”. On Monday, a discover on the Supreme Court web site stated, “Application denied by the court.” Rana had been sentenced to 14 years in jail in 2011 for conspiracy to offer materials assist to a terrorist plot to behead a Danish newspaper’s staff and offering materials assist to LeT, the UN proscribed terror group accountable for the Nov 2008 assaults in Mumbai through which greater than 160 have been killed.