Canadian national of Pakistan origin, Tahawwur Rana is one of the main accused in the Mumbai terror attack of 2008 and was successfully extradited to India from the US on April 10.
The National Investigation Agency said in a statement that it had secured the successful extradition after years of sustained and concerted efforts to bring to justice the key conspirator behind the 2008 mayhem that claimed 166 lives.
"With the active assistance of USDoJ, the US Sky Marshal, NIA worked closely with other Indian intelligence agencies, NSG through the entire extradition process, which also saw India라이브 바카라 Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs coordinating with the other relevant authorities in the United States to take the matter to its successful conclusion," the statement read.
This comes just days after Rana라이브 바카라 last-resort attempt to evade extradition to India failed after the US Supreme Court justices denied his application, moving him closer to being handed over to Indian authorities to face justice in the dastardly attacks.
Rana is known to be associated with Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 attacks.
A total of 166 people, including six Americans, were killed in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 10 Pakistani terrorists laid a more than 60-hour siege, attacking and killing people at iconic and vital locations in Mumbai.
During a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the White House in February, President Donald Trump announced that his administration has approved the extradition of "very evil" Rana "to face justice in India”.
Tahawwur Rana's Life
Tahawwur Rana is a Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman and is 64 years old.
He used to be a doctor in the Pakistan Army and was a Captain at the time of leaving the Army.
Rana later became a Canadian citizenship and opened businesses in the United States and reportedly used them as a cover for terror activities.
"Rana deserted the military in search of a better life and became a Canadian citizen. He and his family later moved to Chicago, where he opened several businesses," reported The Los Angeles Times.
Rana went to Canada in 1997 and obtained Canadian citizenship in 2001 and ran a flourishing immigration consultancy business, according to Rediff News.
Rana was convicted in 2011 in the United States for a plot targeting Danish newspaper over cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, but was cleared of 26/11-related charges at the time.
Rana's links to Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley was revealed their involvement in execution of the Mumbai terror attacks came out to public eventually.
Headley was a key witness in securing Rana's conviction in the Danish paper plot.
Rana was eventually sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in 2013.
Rana is currently lodged in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, had submitted an ‘Emergency Application For Stay Pending Litigation of Petition For Writ of Habeas Corpus' on February 27, 2025 with Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Circuit Justice for the Ninth Circuit Elena Kagan.
Kagan had denied the application earlier last month.
Rana had then renewed his ‘Emergency Application for Stay Pending Litigation of Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus previously addressed to Justice Kagan’, and requested that the renewed application be directed to US Chief Justice John Roberts.
In his emergency application, Rana had sought a stay of his extradition and surrender to India pending litigation (including exhaustion of all appeals) on the merits of his February 13.
Rana in his petition to US Supreme Court raised "a credible, if not compelling, factual case that there are indeed substantial grounds for believing he would be in danger of torture if surrendered to Indian authorities."
According to PTI, the petition cited medical records from July 2024 that confirm Rana has multiple “acute and life-threatening diagnoses”, including multiple documented heart attacks, Parkinson라이브 바카라 disease with cognitive decline, a mass suggestive of bladder cancer, stage 3 chronic kidney disease, and a history of chronic asthma, and multiple COVID-19 infections.
