In a protracted battle, that is Tahawwur Rana’s final authorized probability to keep away from extradition to India.
Washington:
The United States authorities has urged the Supreme Court to dismiss a petition filed by Mumbai-attack convict Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian nationwide of Pakistani origin, to keep away from his extradition to India.
India is in search of the extradition of Rana as he’s wished within the 2008 Mumbai terror assault case.
Having misplaced the authorized battle towards his extraditions in decrease courts and several other federal courts, together with the US Court of Appeals for the North Circuit in San Francisco, Rana on November 13 filed a “petition for a writ of certiorari” earlier than the US Supreme Court.
In a protracted battle, that is Rana’s final authorized probability to keep away from extradition to India.
Rana, at present lodged in a jail in Los Angeles, faces costs for his position within the Mumbai assaults and is understood to be related to Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of many foremost conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai assaults.
“The petition for a writ of certiorari must be denied,” US Solicitor General Elizabeth B Prelogar stated in its submitting earlier than the Supreme Court on December 16.
Rana is just not entitled to reduction from extradition to India on this case, she argued in a 20-page submission.
In his “petition for a writ of certiorari to evaluation the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit”, Rana has argued that he was tried and acquitted within the federal court docket within the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago) on costs referring to the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai. “India now seeks to extradite him for trial on costs based mostly on the an identical conduct at challenge within the Chicago case,” the plea has stated.
Prelogar disagreed.
“The authorities doesn’t concede that the entire conduct on which India seeks extradition was lined by the federal government’s prosecution on this case. For instance, India’s forgery costs are based mostly partly on conduct that was not charged within the United States: petitioner’s use of false data in an software to formally open a department workplace of the Immigration Law Centre submitted to the Reserve Bank of India,” the US solicitor basic stated.
“It is just not clear that the jury’s verdict on this case — which includes conspiracy costs and was considerably tough to parse — implies that he has been ‘convicted or acquitted’ on the entire particular conduct that India has charged,” Prelogar stated.
A complete of 166 individuals, together with six Americans, have been killed within the 2008 Mumbai terror assaults through which 10 Pakistani terrorists laid a greater than 60-hour siege, attacking and killing individuals at iconic and very important areas of Mumbai.
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