Moving to get 26/11 accused Tahawwur Rana before year-end, India holds talks with US officials

The gathering follows the denial of Rana’s petition connected September 23 by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for rehearing of his extradition case. Just the erstwhile month, connected August 15, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit successful California had affirmed the District Court’s denial of Rana’s habeas corpus petition. It said India provided capable competent grounds to enactment the magistrate judge’s uncovering of probable origin that Rana committed the charged crimes.

Now, Rana has a 45 days model to entreaty against the extradition ruling earlier the apical court. After that, the extradition whitethorn astatine champion get delayed by different 45 days, till the Supreme Court waives disconnected his past ditch appeal.

But this is rare, said the source. According to the US government’s courts website connected procedures, the Supreme Court accepts lone 100-150 of the much than 7,000 cases it is asked to reappraisal each year, i.e., astir lone 2 per cent of the cases are accepted.

Requests for comments sent to the US embassy successful New Delhi did not elicit a response.

Rana, 63, was a puerility person of David Headley. Headley, a US national who was calved to an American parent and a Pakistani father, was arrested successful October 2009 by US authorities and sentenced to 35 years successful situation for his engagement successful the Mumbai attacks.

Rana studied astatine the Hasan Abdal Cadet School successful Pakistan, which Headley excessively attended for 5 years. After a stint arsenic a doc successful the Pakistan Army, Rana moved to Canada and was yet granted Canadian citizenship. He aboriginal established a consultancy steadfast called First World Immigration Services successful Chicago. It was a subdivision of this concern successful Mumbai that provided Headley with the cleanable screen to place and surveil imaginable targets for the Pakistani panic radical Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

In the 26/11 attacks, connected November 26, 2008, 10 LeT terrorists stormed into Mumbai and for 3 consecutive days, the metropolis was successful the grip of terror. The unit claimed the lives of 166 people, including six Americans. Pakistani nationals who carried retired the attacks reached India via boats, it was aboriginal found.

Rana was arrested by US constabulary soon aft Headley’s apprehension astatine Chicago’s O’Hare airdrome successful October 2009. He was convicted successful Chicago successful 2011 of providing worldly enactment to the LeT for the India onslaught and for supporting the never-carried-out crippled to onslaught a Danish paper named Jyllands-Posten, which printed cartoons of the Prophet successful 2005. However, jurors successful the US cleared Rana of a much superior complaint of providing enactment for the attacks successful Mumbai.

Headley told prosecutors that successful July 2006, helium had travelled to Chicago to conscionable Rana and told him of the ngo that the LeT had assigned him. Rana approved Headley’s program to found a First World Immigration Services centre successful Mumbai and helped him get a five-year concern visa. However, portion deposing via video nexus astatine the Bombay City Civil and Sessions Court successful February 2016, Headley claimed that helium had informed Rana of his activities lone a fewer months earlier the attacks successful November 2008.

In 2011, the NIA filed a chargesheet against 9 people, including Rana, for readying and executing the attack. In 2014, a Sessions Court successful Delhi issued caller non-bailable warrants against the men, whom the NIA had listed arsenic absconders.