US Supreme Court rejects 26/11 attack accused Tahawwur Rana’s India extradition stay plea

The United States (US) Supreme Court has rejected the plea of Tahawwur Rana — accused within the 2008 Mumbai dread attacks — hunting for a assign on his extradition to India.

“The applying for assign addressed to The Chief Justice and referred to the Court is denied,” the SC bid dated Monday, April 7, 2025, mentioned. Rana had filed an emergency application with Chief Justice Roberts on March 20, 2025, hunting for a assign on his extradition.

Earlier, US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan had denied a the same plea in March. His demand became as soon as circulated amongst the Supreme Court justices for a conference held on April 4, as per the court’s decent net page. In his earlier application, Rana argued that he would no longer continue to exist long ample to be tried in India attributable to hundreds of reasons.

Rana highlighted his deteriorating health. He suffers from a 3.5 cm abdominal aortic aneurysm at prompt anguish of smash, Parkinson’s illness with cognitive decline, and a mass suggestive of bladder cancer. He asserts that he can't be despatched into a “hornet’s nest”, the place aside he'll be centered attributable to nationwide, religious, and cultural animosity.

Earlier in February, US President Donald Trump announced the extradition of Tahawwur Rana to India and mentioned he would face justice. He made the announcement for the period of a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi following their bilateral assembly.

Tahawwur Rana is a known associate of Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one in all the significant conspirators of the November 26 attacks in Mumbai in 2008. A Pakistani-origin businessman, doctor, and immigration entrepreneur, Rana has alleged connections with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Pakistan’s Inter-Providers and products Intelligence (ISI). Rana’s alleged position in facilitating the attacks has remained some extent of contention between India and the United States for years.