- Rana extradited to India for the participation of Mumbai’s attack 2008.
- It is the first American transfer to India in a case of terrorism.
- The United States Supreme Court rejected extradition challenges.
Nueva Delhi: A Canadian businessman accused of helping to orchestrate the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, one of the most mortal in India, arrived in New Delhi on Thursday after the United States extradated it in the first transfer in a case of terrorism.
Tahawwur Rana, 64, a medical doctor turned into an entrepreneur, was extradited in relation to Mumbai’s attacks in November 2008 that killed more than 160 people.
“The National Research Agency on Thursday assured extradition … after years of sustained and concerted efforts to take the key conspirator … before justice,” said NIA, the Indian anti -terrorism agency.
It was accompanied by Indian security agencies after their requests that challenge extradition were rejected by the United States Supreme Court.
Rana extradition is a “great success” of the Government Diplomacy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Indian Interior Minister Amit Shah said Wednesday.
“It is the responsibility of the Indian government to bring back all those who have abused the land and the people of India,” he published in X.
Trump announces the transfer
India formally sought frog custody in June 2020, and President Donald Trump announced frog transfer in February this year during a joint press conference with Modi in Washington.
Rana was sentenced to 14 years in prison in the United States in 2013 for providing support to Lashkar-E-Taiba.
“With regard to our registration, he (frog) did not even request the renewal of his Pakistani origin documents during the last two decades,” Shafqat Ali Khan, spokesman for Pakistan’s foreign office, said on Thursday in information about the media on Thursday.
Rana’s lawyer has said that Rana was a “good man and was absorbed by something.”
For three days in November 2008, ten strongly armed attackers attacked the main milestones in Mumbai, including two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and the main train station, killing 166 people.
