Mumbai assault accused Tahawwur Rana will get an enormous setback from US court docket, method for extradition cleared

Washington: In a serious determination, a US court docket has given a setback to Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana. The court docket stated that he might be extradited to India underneath the extradition treaty between the 2 nations for his involvement within the 2008 Mumbai terrorist assault.

The court docket stated in its determination on August 15 that the (India US Extradition) treaty permits Rana’s extradition. Delivering its verdict on an attraction filed by Rana, a panel of judges of the US Court docket of Appeals upheld the choice of the District Court docket of the Central District of California. On this, the petition difficult the certification of the Justice of the Peace decide declaring him extraditable to India for his alleged involvement within the terrorist assaults in Mumbai was dismissed.

Below the restricted scope of habeas corpus evaluation of the extradition order, the panel held that Rana’s alleged crime falls underneath the phrases of the extradition treaty between the US and India. The three-judge panel concluded that the co-conspirator’s plea settlement didn’t compel it to achieve a unique conclusion.

Rana, a Pakistani nationwide, was tried in a US district court docket for allegedly offering help to a terrorist organisation that carried out the huge terrorist assaults in Mumbai. The jury convicted Rana of offering materials help to a international terrorist organisation and conspiring to offer materials help to a foiled plot to hold out terrorist assaults in Denmark.