A painting made by students of Gurukul Art School on the extradition of 26/11 Mumbai attack accused Tahawwur Rana from USA to India
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The US Supreme Court has turned down a review petition by terror accused Tahawwur Rana, dismissing his last legal challenge against his extradition to India in connection with the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.
“Petition DENIED,” the Supreme Court said. The apex court's order came on January 21, a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the US President.
Earlier, Rana lost legal battles in several federal courts, including the US Court of Appeals for the North Circuit in San Francisco.
Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, on November 13 filed a “petition for a writ of certiorari” before the US Supreme Court to review the lower court's ruling.
Rana, who is currently detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, is known to be associated with Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Who is Tahawwur Rana?
Tahawwur Hussain Rana was born on 12 January, 1961.
He was born and raised in Chichawatni in the the Punjab Province of Pakistan
A physician by profession, Rana served as a Captain, General Duty practitioner in the Pakistan Army Medical Corps.
Rana and his wife, who is also a physician, immigrated to Canada in 1997, and obtained Canadian citizenship in June 2001.
He lived primarily in Chicago and owns several businesses there, including an immigration service agency, First World Immigration Services, with offices in Chicago, New York and Toronto.
Rana and Headley had attended training camps that Lashkar operated in Pakistan
On 18 October, 2009, Rana and Headley were arrested for allegedly plotting to attack the offices of Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Rana had traveled to Mumbai and had stayed in the Taj Mahal Hotel , one of the places which was attacked by terrorists during 26/11.
With PTI inputs