- Rana extradited India’s participation in the 2008 Mumbai attack.
- This is the first time the United States has moved to India in a terrorism case.
- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the challenge of extradition.
New Delhi: A Canadian businessman accused of assisting in a 2008 attack in Mumbai, India’s deadliest Mumbai, which arrived in New Delhi on Thursday after the United States diverted him for the first time in a terrorism case.
Tahawwur Rana, 64, is a doctor-turned businessman who was extradited in the November 2008 Mumbai attack, killing more than 160 people.
“The National Bureau of Investigation on Thursday successfully secured extradition … After years of continuous and consistent efforts, the main conspirators were brought to justice,” said Nia, an anti-terrorism agency in India.
Indian security agencies accompanied him with him after his petition challenged extradition, and were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
India’s interior minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that Rana’s extradition was a “huge success” in the diplomacy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He posted on X: “It is the responsibility of the Indian government to bring back all those who abuse Indian land and people.”
Trump announces transfer
India officially sought custody of Lana in June 2020, and President Donald Trump announced Rana’s transfer at a joint press conference in Washington Modi in February this year.
Rana was sentenced to 14 years in jail for providing support to Lashkar-e-Taiba in 2013.
“According to our records, he (Rana) has not applied for his Pakistan-Ofunded Fund documents even in the past two decades,” Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Shafqat Ali Khan said in a media briefing on Thursday.
Rana’s lawyer said Rana was a “good guy, attracted by things.”
In three days in November 2008, ten armed attackers targeted Mumbai’s main landmarks, including two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre and a major railway station, killing 166 people.
