Live
- We've not changed our brand of cricket: Suryakumar backs attacking intent after T20I win vs SA
- Nukasani objects to Jagan’s comments on officials
- Polavaram hydroelectric project work reaches new milestone
- Congress leader faces protest from party workers in Assam’s Samaguri
- How receiving digital life certificate becomes a daunting task for India's elderly
- India’s power sector set for robust growth amid renewable energy push
- Four held, bikes worth Rs 16 lakh recovered
- Either attend Assembly or quit: Sharmila to Jagan
- Audio clip of CSO seeking bribe goes viral
- HC allows Baliyatra on both grounds
2008 Mumbai terror attack: India can have Tahawwur Hussain Rana before 2021
There is a strong possibility of PakistaniCanadian Tahawwur Hussain Ranas extradition to India before the completion of his 14year jail term in the US in 2021 for plotting the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, an informed source here has said
Washington: There is a “strong possibility” of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana’s extradition to India before the completion of his 14-year jail term in the US in 2021 for plotting the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, an informed source here has said.
Rana, 58, a resident of Chicago, was arrested in 2009 on the charges of plotting the 26/11 terror attack.
Rana, a Pakistan-born Canadian national, was convicted by a federal jury of participating in a conspiracy involving a terrorism plot against a Danish newspaper and providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a terrorist organisation based in Pakistan.
A total of 166 people, including 6 US nationals, were killed in the attack carried out by 10 Pakistan-based LeT terrorists in Mumbai. Nine of the attackers were killed by police while lone survivor Ajmal Kasab was captured and hanged after handed down death sentence by an Indian court.
In 2013, Rana was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber.
According to the US officials, he is set to be released in December 2021. The Indian government, with “full co-operation” from the Trump administration, is currently working on completing the necessary paperwork to ensure the extradition before his jail term ends in 2021.
