US court: 26/11 accused Tahawwur Rana can be extradited to India | India News

A US court has ruled that Pakistani origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Hussain Ran can be extradited to India, where he is wanted for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks carried out by terrorists from Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba.
“The (Indian-American) extradition treaty allows Rana’s extradition,” said the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, said Thursday.
In a ruling on the appeal of 63-year-old Rana, a panel of three judges affirmed the district court in the Central District of California's denial of his habeas corpus petition. The petition challenged a justice of the peace's certification that he “deliverable' to India.
Rana is currently in a Los Angeles jail, facing charges for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. He is known to be linked to Pakistani-American LeT terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators in the attacks.

US judge: Rana says Indian people deserved 26/11 attacks
In his opinion for the court that ruled that Tahawwur Hussain Rana could be extradited to India, Judge Milan Smith said that “India had presented sufficient compelling evidence” to support an initial order by a justice of the peace “that there was a reasonable suspicion that Rana committed the crimes he was charged with” and thus to allow extradition.
Rana, a Canadian citizen living in Chicago, was arrested in the United States in 2009 for planning a bomb attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which had published a controversial picture of the Prophet Muhammad.
He was charged in federal court in Chicago on three main counts: his involvement in the Danish case, his support of Lashkar and his conspiracy to carry out the Mumbai attacks.
He was acquitted of the Mumbai attacks, but found guilty in the other two cases and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
The appeal court ruled that his acquittal in the Mumbai attacks case had no impact on his extradition because he faces several different charges in India, including conspiracy, waging war, murder, terrorism and forgery.
Rana was released on humanitarian grounds after seven years during the Covid-19 pandemic, after which India requested his extradition to face trial here, which the Justice of the Peace approved.
Rana is a former Pakistan Army doctor who set up an immigration agency after immigrating to Canada. The ruling says Rana helped Headley get a five-year visa to India under the pretense of opening a branch of his company there. Headley used the visa to plan the Lashkar terror attack by conducting surveillance on the Taj Hotel and other targets. Headley informed Rana of the surveillance activities, the ruling says.
Judge Smith also noted in his ruling: “Rana praised the terrorists who carried out the attacks and said the Indian people 'deserved it.'”