US SC to listen to Rana’s renewed software in search of keep of extradition to India

Rana is thought to be related to Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of many principal conspirators of the 26/11 assaults.

Headley carried out a recce of Mumbai earlier than the assaults by posing as an worker of Rana’s immigration consultancy.

Rana was convicted within the US of 1 rely of conspiracy to offer materials help to the terrorist plot in Denmark and one rely of offering materials help to Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Lashker-e-Taiba which was chargeable for the assaults in Mumbai.

New York-based Indian-American lawyer Ravi Batra advised PTI that Rana had made his software to the Supreme Court docket to forestall extradition, which Justice Kagan denied on 6 March.

The appliance is now earlier than Roberts, “who has shared it with the Court docket to convention in order to harness your complete courtroom’s view.”

Batra added that he absolutely expects “that in calmer instances CJ Roberts would deny Rana the appropriate to remain in America and keep away from going through justice in India.”

“Throughout present instances, with so many district judges blocking President Trump’s home agenda modifications…the Supreme Court docket will take pleasure in denying Rana extra simply.”

“After President Trump and PM (Narendra) Modi met within the Oval, President Trump introduced within the press convention that Rana shall be extradited to India, to face his victims and his justice. The present posture is akin to a fish out of water, however shifting round quite a bit to attempt to get again into American waters,” Batra stated. 

Rana is in search of a keep of his extradition and give up to India pending litigation (together with exhaustion of all appeals) on the deserves of a petition he filed on 13 February.

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

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

The appliance additionally stated that his “extreme medical circumstances” render extradition to Indian detention amenities a “de facto” loss of life 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 persistent kidney illness, and a historical past of persistent 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 could be in peril 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 fees to the 2008 Mumbai assaults, and his persistent well being circumstances he’s much more more likely to be tortured than in any other case could be the case, and that torture could be very more likely to kill him briefly order.”

The US Supreme Court docket denied Rana’s petition for writ of certiorari referring to his unique habeas petition on 21 January 2025.

The appliance notes that on that very same day, newly-confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio had met with exterior affairs minister Dr S. Jaishankar.

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

Rana’s Counsel requested from the State Division the whole administrative report on which Secretary Rubio primarily based his choice to authorize Rana’s give up to India.

The Counsel additionally requested speedy info on any dedication america has obtained from India with respect to Rana’s therapy.