Days after the US Supreme Courtroom rejected a overview petition filed by Tahawwur Rana, wished in India for his function within the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults, the Indian authorities stated Friday that it’s working with the Individuals on “procedural points” for his “early extradition”.
That is New Delhi’s first affirmation that work is underway to convey Rana again to face trial within the 2008 terror assaults that killed 166 individuals. He’s at present lodged in a detention centre in Los Angeles.
“The US Supreme Courtroom on 21 January 2025 declined to listen to a petition from the accused (Rana). We at the moment are working with the US facet on procedural points for early extradition to India of the accused within the Mumbai terror assault,” Randhir Jaiswal, official spokesperson of the Ministry of Exterior Affairs, stated.
On November 13 final yr, Rana had filed a “petition for a writ of certiorari” — basically a course of to hunt overview of a decrease court docket order — earlier than the US Supreme Courtroom, arguing that he was tried and acquitted in a federal court docket within the Northern District of Illinois on costs associated to the Mumbai assaults and can’t be despatched to India for a second trial on the identical costs.
With the rejection of his plea paving means for his extradition to India, sources had informed The Indian Specific {that a} group of 4 officers of the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) shall be going to the US to finish the formalities for his extradition.
The Delhi Prisons Division had additionally began making preparations in a high-security ward of Tihar jail for Rana’s keep, it’s discovered.
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