Rana loses his last ditch bid to thwart extradition to India | India News

NEW DELHI: Tahawwur Rana, one of many masterminds of the 2008 lethal terror assault on Mumbai, has been dispatched to India by the US authorities, clearing the best way for less than the second accused of the carnage to be tried in an Indian court docket.
Rana, who misplaced his last-gasp bid to thwart extradition to India on Monday with John Roberts, Chief Justice of US Supreme Court rejecting his enchantment for emergency keep, could land in India by Wednesday and be formally arrested upon landing.
A workforce of officers drawn from Indian businesses within the US have been tasked to facilitate his return. The workforce, comprising seasoned professionals with expertise in worldwide legislation and intelligence gathering, efficiently navigated the advanced extradition course of, making certain Rana’s secure and safe switch from US custody to Indian authorities.
He was subsequently placed on a particular flight. Two jails, one in Delhi and one other in Mumbai, have been requested to covertly make particular preparations consistent with US judiciary suggestions about extradited topics. He is initially doubtless to be in custody of NIA for the primary few weeks.
The train was supervised by National Security Adviser A Ok Doval, together with officers from the ministry of house affairs.
Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian and energetic member of LeT, had organized passports for fellow jehadi, Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley aka Dawood Gilani, to journey to India to choose targets for the phobia assault that was being hatched by Lashkar in collaboration with ISI, Pakistan’s spy company. Rana gloated over the slaughter of harmless civilians in Mumbai on Nov 26, 2008 by and mentioned that the jehadis liable for it ought to be given Pakistan’s highest posthumous army honors.
So far solely Ajmal Kasab, the only LeT terrorist concerned in 26/11 rampage who was nabbed alive, had been prosecuted .
In Feb, US President Donald Trump had confirmed Rana’s extradition to India saying he was happy to announce that Rana is “going back to India to face justice”. During the joint press meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi after their bilateral assembly, Trump had mentioned: “I am pleased to announce that my administration has approved the extradition of one of the plotters (Tahawwur Rana) 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.”
The extradition was the results of sustained efforts by the Modi govt since 2019. That yr in Dec, India had submitted a diplomatic word to the US to extradite Rana. On June 10, 2020, India filed a grievance searching for the provisional arrest of Rana to pave the best way for his extradition, marking the start of a cat-and-mouse recreation.