Tahawwur Rana submits renewed software searching for keep of extradition to India after U.S. Supreme Courtroom rejects his emergency bid

Mumbai terror assault accused Tahawwur Rana has submitted a renewed software to Chief Justice John Roberts searching for a keep of his extradition to India after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom rejected his emergency bid.

Rana, 64, a Canadian nationwide of Pakistani origin, is at the moment lodged within the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Los Angeles.

He had submitted an “Emergency Software For Keep Pending Litigation of Petition For Writ of Habeas Corpus” on February 27 with Elena Kagan, Affiliate Justice of the Supreme Courtroom of the US and Circuit Justice for the Ninth Circuit.

A be aware dated March 6 on the Supreme Courtroom web site mentioned that “Software …denied by Justice Kagan.”

Rana has now renewed his “Emergency Software for Keep Pending Litigation of Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus” beforehand addressed to Justice Kagan, and requests that the renewed software be directed to Chief Justice Roberts,” in accordance with the submission by Rana’s attorneys on Thursday posted on the court docket’s web site.

In his emergency software, Rana had sought a “keep of his extradition and give up to India pending litigation (together with exhaustion of all appeals) on the deserves of his February 13 petition.

In that petition, Rana argued that his extradition to India violates United States regulation and the United Nations Conference Towards Torture “as a result of there are substantial grounds for believing that, if extradited to India, the petitioner will likely be at risk of being subjected to torture.”

Tahawwur Rana extradition to India: What we all know to this point

“The chance of torture on this case is even increased although as petitioner faces acute threat as a Muslim of Pakistani origin charged within the Mumbai assaults,” the appliance mentioned.

The applying additionally mentioned that his “extreme medical circumstances” render extradition to Indian detention amenities a “de facto” dying sentence on this case. 

It cited medical data from July 2024 that verify Rana has a number of “acute and life-threatening diagnoses”, together with a number of documented coronary heart assaults, Parkinson’s illness with cognitive decline, a mass suggestive of bladder most cancers, stage 3 continual kidney illness, and a historical past of continual bronchial asthma, and a number of COVID-19 infections. 

“Accordingly, petitioner definitely has raised a reputable, if not compelling, factual case that there are certainly substantial grounds for believing he can be at risk of torture if surrendered to Indian authorities. 

“Additional, due to his Muslim faith, his Pakistani origin, his standing as a former member of the Pakistani Military, the relation of the putative expenses to the 2008 Mumbai assaults, and his continual well being circumstances he’s much more prone to be tortured than in any other case can be the case, and that torture may be very prone to kill him briefly order.”

The U.S. Supreme Courtroom denied Rana’s petition for a writ of certiorari referring to his unique habeas petition on January 21, 2025.

The applying notes that on that very same day, newly-confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio had met with Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Washington on February 12 to satisfy with Trump, Rana’s counsel acquired a letter from the Division of State, stating that “on February 11, 2025, the Secretary of State determined to authorise” Rana’s “give up to India,” pursuant to the “Extradition Treaty between the US and India”.

Rana’s Counsel requested from the State Division the entire administrative report on which Secretary Rubio primarily based his determination to authorise Rana’s give up to India.

The Counsel additionally requested fast info on any dedication the US has obtained from India with respect to Rana’s remedy.

“The federal government declined to supply any info in response to those requests,” the appliance mentioned.

It added that given Rana’s underlying well being circumstances and the State Division’s personal findings relating to the remedy of prisoners, it is rather probably “Rana is not going to survive lengthy sufficient to be tried in India. 

“The problems raised by petitioner benefit full and cautious consideration, and the stakes are huge for him. The very least the U.S. courts owe the petitioner is a full probability to litigate these points, together with exercising their appellate rights, earlier than he’s consigned to the destiny that awaits him by the hands of the Indian authorities,” the appliance mentioned.

It added that if a keep shouldn’t be entered, there will likely be no evaluate in any respect, and the U.S. courts will lose jurisdiction, and “petitioner will quickly be lifeless.

“Due to this fact, we respectfully request that this Courtroom enter an Order staying the extradition and give up of petitioner pending a full and regarded listening to on petitioner’s claims by the district court docket, circuit court docket, and, if mandatory, a writ of certiorari to and additional proceedings earlier than this Courtroom,” it mentioned.

U.S. President Donald Trump, throughout a joint press convention with Prime Minister Modi within the White Home final month introduced that Rana’s extradition to India has been accredited.