Washington: The United States Supreme Court rejected an “emergency application” by 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana, which opposed his extradition to India claiming he will be tortured there as he is a Muslim of Pakistani origin.
Tahawwur Rana, a key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, was seeking to get his extradition to India stopped arguing he would be subjected to “torture”. Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, had filed an “Emergency Application For Stay” with the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Circuit Justice for the Ninth Circuit.
Tahawwur Rana, 64, a Canadian citizen of Pakistani descent, is currently lodged at a metropolitan detention center in Los Angeles. He is linked to David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-American terrorist and one of the main conspirators behind the Mumbai attacks.
What Tahawwur Rana told US SC
Tahawwur Rana submitted an “Emergency Application for Stay” to the Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, requesting that his extradition be delayed until all legal appeals are exhausted.
Rana argued that his extradition to India violates United States law and the United Nations Convention Against Torture “because there are substantial grounds for believing that, if extradited to India, petitioner will be in danger of being subjected to torture.” “The likelihood of torture in this case is even higher though as petitioner faces acute risk as a Muslim of Pakistani origin charged in the Mumbai attacks,” the application said.
The application also said that his “severe medical conditions” render extradition to Indian detention facilities, a “de facto” death sentence in this case. It cited medical records from July 2024 showing that he has multiple “acute and life-threatening diagnoses”, including multiple documented heart attacks, Parkinson’s disease with cognitive decline, a mass suggestive of bladder cancer, stage 3 chronic kidney disease, and a history of chronic asthma, and multiple COVID-19 infections.
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