Tahawwur Rana: Big setback to Tahawwur Rana from US court, petition seeking to stop extradition rejected

Tahawwur Rana – Photo: ANI

On February 27, Tahawwur Rana again filed an “emergency application to stay the habeas corpus petition pending trial” in the US Supreme Court. Which was rejected by the Supreme Court on Monday April 7, 2025

The way has been cleared for the extradition of Mumbai terror attack accused terrorist Tahawwur Rana to India. The US Supreme Court has rejected the petition seeking a stay on the extradition of Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana to India. After this decision of the Supreme Court, the way to bring Tahawwur to India has become easier. 64-year-old Pakistani-origin Canadian citizen Tahawwur Rana is currently lodged in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles and India is trying to stop the extradition.

On February 27, Tahawwur Rana filed an emergency application before Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court and Circuit Justice Elena Kagan of the Ninth Circuit to stay the pending trial of the habeas corpus petition. Earlier last month, Justice Kagan rejected Rana’s application.

Rana then filed a new emergency application for a stay till the pendency of the habeas corpus petition addressed earlier to Justice Kagan. He requested that the new application be sent to Chief Justice Roberts. According to the Supreme Court website, Rana’s new application was sent to the court on April 4. On Monday, the Supreme Court informed through a notice that the court has rejected his application.

Tahawwur’s trick fails

Earlier, Tahawwur Rana had played a new trick to avoid his extradition to India. Rana had filed an emergency petition in the US Supreme Court to stop his extradition.

‘Muslim of Pakistani origin, will be tortured in India’

Terrorist Tahawwur Rana had claimed in the application that he is a Muslim of Pakistani origin, so he will be tortured in India, so his extradition should be stopped. Rana has also cited his poor health.

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Kept in Los Angeles’s Metropolitan Detention Center

Rana (64), a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, is currently lodged in a metropolitan detention center in Los Angeles. Tahawwur Rana is close to Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 attacks. US President Donald Trump’s administration approved Rana’s extradition last month.

Earlier in January, the US Supreme Court approved the extradition of Tahawwur Rana after the court rejected his review petition in the case. India said last month that it was working with US authorities for the early extradition of Tahawwur Rana. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal had said, “The US Supreme Court refused to hear the accused’s petition on January 21. We are now working with the US side on procedural issues to extradite the Mumbai terror attack accused to India soon.”

Terrorist attack took place on 26 November 2008
On 26 November 2008, a group of 10 Pakistani terrorists attacked a railway station, two hotels and a Jewish center after entering India’s financial capital through the Arabian Sea sea route. 166 people were killed in this attack that lasted for about 60 hours, which shocked the whole country. After the attack, terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab was caught alive. In November 2012, Ajmal Amir Kasab was hanged in Pune’s Yerwada Jail.