Tahawwur Rana extradition: We are talking about the 26/11 terrorist attacks that were accused of landing in India? |Indian News
2008 Mumbai Attack: He was the main defendant in the 2008 Mumbai bombing after the extradition of Pakistan Canada Tahawur Hussain Rana, the United States said the 26/11 terrorist attacks shocked the world and the United States has long supported India’s efforts to ensure justice is given to those responsible.
On April 9, the U.S. State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce said Thursday that U.S. State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce said Thursday that “face justice for his role in the planned 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks,” the U.S. State Department said Thursday.
“The United States has long supported India’s efforts to ensure those responsible for these attacks, and as President Trump has said, the United States and India will continue to work together to combat the scourge of global terrorism,” Bruce was quoted by the Puri news agency.
Rana is “having it in India, and we are proud of this dynamic.” Bruce further noted that some people may not remember the attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans, shocked the world. “I encourage you to look them up and understand exactly how horrible it is, which is in the importance of today’s situation,” she said.
Earlier, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman said in a statement to PTI that Rana’s extradition was a “critical step” in seeking justice for the victims of the outrageous attack. A spokesman for Justice said Washington extraditioned convicted terrorists and Pakistan-Canadian citizens on trial in India on 10 criminal charges, due to his role in the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai.
“Rana’s extradition is a crucial step in seeking justice for six Americans and dozens of other victims,” a spokesman said. A team led by NIA authorities landed in India on Thursday night with Rana, who will now face justice in the country and participate in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-based Jean Terrorists.
A multi-institutional team from India has gone to the United States and all the paperwork and legitimacy of bringing Lana back to India has been completed. This huge development took place just days after Rana’s last attempt to escape the failure of extradition in India after the U.S. Supreme Court Justice denied his application, bringing him closer to being handed over to Indian authorities to face justice in a mean attack.
Rana resided at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on February 27, 2025 and filed a “law for habeas corpus, demanding a pending habeas corpus litigation”, U.S. Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit Judge Elena Kagan’s U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit Judge Justice. Kagan denied the application earlier last month.
Rana then renewed his “emergency application for a pending petition lawsuit for habeas voluntary orders that had previously addressed Judge Kagan and demanded that the re-application be directed to Chief Justice John Roberts.
The order on the Supreme Court website states that Rana’s application for updates was “distributed as a meeting” on April 4 and that the “application” has been “referred to the court.” The notice on the Supreme Court website said Monday that the application was “rejected” by the court.
In the emergency application, Rana seeks to suspend his extradition and surrender to India, asserting that if extraditioned to India, he will be “in danger of torture” and “in this case the possibility of torture is even higher, as the petitioner faces an acute risk of acute attack because it is like a Muslim, attacked by pakistani’s offensive effect.
The application also stated that in this case, his “severe medical condition” made Indian detention centers extradition “de facto” death penalty. It cites medical records starting in July 2024, confirming that Lana has multiple “acute and life-threatening diagnoses” including multiple recorded heart attacks, cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease, indicating bladder cancer, stage 3 chronic kidney disease, a history of chronic asthma and multiple COVID-199 infections.
Rana is the origin of the Canadian national Pakistani, associated with Pakistan-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 attacks.
(with proxy input)
