Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana extraditable to India: US appeals court
Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman could be extradited to India where is wanted for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack carried out by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists. «The (India US Extradition) Treaty permits Rana's extradition,» the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in its ruling on Thursday.
Ruling on an appeal filed by 63-year-old Rana, a panel of judges of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the District Court in the Central District of California's denial of his habeas corpus petition challenging a magistrate judge's certification of his as extraditable to India for his alleged participation in terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
Rana, currently lodged in a jail in Los Angeles, faces charges for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai attack and is known to be associated with Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the terror incident that hit India's financial hub in 2008.
Rana has the option of appealing against the ruling. He still has not run out of all the legal options to prevent his extradition to India.
Under the limited scope of habeas review of an extradition order, the panel held that Rana's alleged offence fell within the terms of the extradition treaty between the United States and India, which included a Non Bis in Idem (double jeopardy) exception to extraditability «when the person sought has been convicted or acquitted in the Requested State for the offence for which extradition is
