Success for India, US SC approves extradition of Mumbai attack...

frame Success for India, US SC approves extradition of Mumbai attack...

S Venkateshwari
Success for india, US sc approves extradition of mumbai attack...

The US supreme court on saturday approved the extradition of 2008 mumbai terror attack convict Tahawwur Rana to India. India had been demanding the extradition of Pakistani-origin Canadian citizen Tahawwur Rana for a long time. Tahawwur Rana is wanted in the 2008 mumbai terror attacks case. After losing the legal battle in the lower courts, Tahawwur Rana had approached the US supreme court against extradition to India.

This was Tahawwur Rana's last chance

After losing the legal battle in the lower courts and several federal courts, Tahawwur Rana had last approached the US court of Appeals for the Northern Circuit in San Francisco. This was Rana's last legal chance not to be extradited to India.

Let us tell you that the US court, while giving its verdict in august 2024, had approved sending Rana to india under the India-US extradition treaty, but the matter remained stuck in the paperwork. indian agencies had presented all the evidence in the court, after which the court gave approval.

These serious allegations have been made

It is worth noting that Rana is seriously accused of helping David Headley. He had helped the mastermind of this attack, David Coleman Headley, in the recce of the hideouts in Mumbai. india had presented strong evidence of recce of the hideouts in the 26/11 attack in the US court. He was arrested from Chicago in the year 2009. He has also been accused of being associated with ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Apart from this, he has been described as an operative of Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI and terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Terrorist attack took place on Mumbai in 2008

On 26 november 2008, a terrorist attack took place on the country's financial capital Mumbai. A total of 166 people, including six Americans, were killed in these terrorist attacks. In this attack, 10 Pakistani terrorists targeted important places in mumbai for more than 60 hours.

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