Tahawwur Rana’s extradition to India’s deck is clear; U.S. Supreme Court dismisses defense of the 26/11 attack defendant | World News
New York: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack, accusing Tahawwur Rana of appeal seeking to stay with him for extradition to India, bringing him closer to being handed over to Indian authorities in the face of justice. Rana, 64, is the origin of a Canadian national Pakistani and is currently living in a metropolitan detention center in Los Angeles. He is known to be associated with David Coleman Headley, one of the main accomplices of the 26/11 attack.
Before the attack, Headley conducted the Mumbai field as an employee of Rana’s Emigration Consultancy. Rana filed a lawsuit for habeas truce on February 27, 2025 to pending a petition lawsuit, Deputy Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit Judge Elena Kagan and the Circuit Judicial Justice.
Kagan denied the application earlier last month. Rana then renewed his “emergency application to pending a petition lawsuit for a habeas voluntary previously introduced to Justice Kagan and demanded a re-application to target U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts. The order on the Supreme Court website states that Rana’s renewal application was “distributed as a meeting” on April 4 and that the “application” was “referred to the court.” Notices on the Supreme Court website said on Monday that “the court rejected the application.” Rana was convicted in the United States on charges of significant support for the terrorist plot in Denmark and material support for Pakistan’s terrorist group Lashker-e-Taiba, which is responsible for the attack in Mumbai.
Ravi Batra, an Indian-American attorney based in New York, told PTI that Rana had filed an application with the Supreme Court to prevent extradition, which Judge Kagan denied on March 6. Then shared the application with the court in Roberts, “He shared the application with the court to conquer the view of the entire court.” The Supreme Court Justice was Deputy Justice Clarence Thomas, Deputy Justice Samuel A.
In the emergency application, Rana seeks to suspend his extradition and surrender to India on the merits of February 13, pending litigation (including all appeals). In this petition, Rana argued that his extradition violated U.S. law and UN conventions, “because of believing in India’s infringement, it is substantial because there will be substantial attitudes toward India because it is an infringement to India.
“In this case, the possibility of torture is even higher, although the petitioner faces an acute risk of Pakistani Muslims accused in the Mumbai attack.” The application also stated that in this case, his “severe medical condition” extraditioned the Indian detention center “de facto” death penalty. The U.S. Supreme Court denied Rana’s petition on January 21 related to his original habeas order. The application states that on the same day, newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Foreign Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Washington on February 12 to meet with Trump, Lana’s lawyer received a letter from the State Department saying that “On February 11, 2025, the Secretary of State decided to authorize Rana to “submission to India” in accordance with the “Transfer Treaty between the United States and India.” Rana’s lawyer asked the State Department for a complete administrative record, and Rubio was decided by Rubio’s secretary to authorize Rana to surrender to India.
The lawyer also requested immediate information on any commitments made by the United States to receive Rana treatment from India. “The government refused to provide any information on these requirements,” the application said. It added that in light of Lana’s basic health status and the State Department’s findings on the treatment of prisoners, “Lana will most likely not survive long enough to be tried in India”.
Donald Trump announced in February that his administration has approved the extradition of the “very evil” Rana, an Indian law enforcement agency wanted for its role in the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks, “face justice in India”. In the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, there were 166 people, including six Americans, of which 10 Pakistani terrorists suffered more than 60 hours of attack, attacking and killing people at iconic and important locations in Mumbai.
