The United States government has urged the Supreme Court to dismiss the petition filed by Pakistani-origin Canadian citizen Tahawwur Rana, convicted of Mumbai attack, to avoid extradition to India.
India is seeking Rana’s extradition as he is wanted in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks case.
After losing the legal battle against his extradition in lower courts and several federal courts, including the US Court of Appeals for the Northern Circuit in San Francisco, Rana filed a “petition for writ of certiorari” before the US Supreme Court on 13 November.
This is Rana’s last legal chance to avoid extradition to India in a long battle.
Rana, who is currently lodged in a Los Angeles jail, is facing charges for his role in the Mumbai attacks and is believed to be linked to Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, the mastermind behind the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. One of the conspirators.
“The petition for writ of certiorari should be denied,” U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Preloger said in her Dec. 16 filing before the Supreme Court.
He argued in a 20-page plea that Rana is not entitled to relief from extradition to India in this case.
In his “Petition for Writ of Certiorari for Review of the Judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit”, Rana argues that he was tried in federal court in the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago) and charged with Was acquitted. Related to the terrorist attack on Mumbai in 2008. “India now seeks his extradition to face trial on charges based on similar conduct in the Chicago case,” the petition said.
Preloggers disagreed.
“The Government does not believe that the conduct over which India seeks extradition was within the scope of the Government’s prosecution in this case. For example, India’s counterfeiting charges are based in part on the conduct over which the charges in the United States Was not imposed: Use of petitioner “The application submitted to the Reserve Bank of India to formally open a branch office of the Immigration Law Center contained false information,” the US Solicitor General said.
Preloger said, “It is not clear whether the jury’s verdict in this case – which involved conspiracy charges and which was somewhat difficult to understand – means that he has been ‘convicted’ or acquitted on all those specific conducts.” Given’ which India has alleged.” ,
A total of 166 people, including six Americans, were killed in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, in which 10 Pakistani terrorists laid siege to Mumbai for more than 60 hours, attacking iconic and important places in Mumbai and killing people.
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