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Tahawwur Rana’s plea seeking stay on extradition to India rejected by US Supreme Court

Rana, 64, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, is currently lodged in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.

An order on the US Supreme Court website noted that Rana's renewed application has been “distributed for Conference of 4/4/2025” and “application” has been “referred to the Court.”

The United States Supreme Court has rejected the 2008 Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana’s application seeking a stay on his extradition to India. This comes after Rana’s plea against his extradition was rejected by the top court of the US last month.

Rana, 64, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, is currently lodged in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. In February this year, Rana filed an “Emergency Application For Stay Pending Litigation of Petition For Writ of Habeas Corpus” with Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the US and Circuit Justice for the Ninth Circuit.

Following the rejection of his plea, Rana had then renewed his “Emergency Application for Stay Pending Litigation of Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus previously addressed to Justice Kagan,” and requested that the renewed application be directed to Chief Justice Roberts. Citing an order on the Supreme Court website, news agency PTI reported that Rana’s renewed application has been “distributed for Conference of 4/4/2025” and “application” has been “referred to the Court.” On Monday, a notice on the Supreme Court website said, “Application denied by the Court.”

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Last month, Rana filed the plea after President Donald Trump approved his extradition following his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February this year. Rana is set to be extradited on the basis of the India-US Extradition Treaty signed by the two countries in 1997.

Rana faces the charges of aiding and abetting the reconnaissance for the attacks carried out by David Coleman Headley, with whom he went to school in Pakistan, and of taking part in the terror conspiracy. He was arrested in Chicago in October 2009 for his involvement in the 26/11 attacks and the foiled attack on Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten that same year.

With PTI inputs

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