26/11 accused Tahawwur Rana’s plea to pause extradition rejected by US court

The US Supreme Court has rejected Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana’s application seeking a stay on his extradition to India, weeks after President Donald Trump approved the move during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington.

After Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan refused to grant a stay on Rana’s extradition, his counsel renewed an emergency application previously addressed to Kagan requesting that the renewed application be placed before the Chief Justice of the America’s top court.

The 63-year-old Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, is currently jailed at a metropolitan detention centre in Los Angeles. He is known to be associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist David Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai which led to the deaths of 175 people.

In his “emergency application” filed with the US Supreme Court earlier this week, Rana claimed that he would be tortured in India if extradited since he is a Muslim of Pakistani origin.