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IBNS-CMEDIA: An American court has ruled that Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, whose name is involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is “extraditable to India” under the extradition treaty between the two countries.
The panel affirmed the district court’s denial of Tahawwur Hussain Rana’s habeas corpus petition challenging a magistrate judge’s certification of Rana as extraditable to India for his alleged participation in terrorist attacks in Mumbai, reported ANI.
The panel observed that India showed significant evidence to support the magistrate judges’ finding of probable cause that Rana committed the charged crimes.
In its chargesheet, Mumbai Police had named Rana in connection with the attack that had left the nation shocked in 2008.
Rana is accused of being an operative of operative of ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
In the chargesheet, Rana is accused of supporting the 26/11 attacks’ mastermind David Coleman Headley, who conducted the recce of the Mumbai attacks, reported ANI.
The 2008 Mumbai attacks also referred to as 26/11 were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday 26 November and lasted until November 29, 2008. At least 174 people died, including 9 attackers, and more than 300 were wounded.
Eight of the attacks occurred in South Mumbai at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai Chabad House, The Oberoi Trident, The Taj Palace & Tower, Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital, The Nariman House, the Metro Cinema, and in a lane behind the Times of India building and St. Xavier’s College.
There was also an explosion at Mazagaon, in Mumbai’s port area, and a taxi at Vile Parle.
By the early morning of 28 November 28, all sites except for the Taj Hotel had been secured by the Mumbai Police and security forces.
On November 29, India’s National Security Guards (NSG) conducted Operation Black Tornado to flush out the remaining attackers; it culminated in the death of the last remaining attackers at the Taj Hotel and ended the attacks.
