Mumbai terrorist attacks are accused of Tahawwur Rana filed a new application to Chief Justice John Roberts, seeking his extradition case to India after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his emergency bid.
Rana, 64, is a Canadian national Pakistani origin and has lived in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.
He filed “an emergency application for habeas warrant litigation in anticipation of habeas warrant lawsuits on February 27 with U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit Justice Elena Kagan on February 27.
A note published on the Supreme Court website on March 6 said: “The application… was denied by Judge Kagan.”
According to a statement posted on the court’s website on Thursday, Rana has now renewed his “emergency application to file a lawsuit for habeas corpus.”
In the emergency application, Rana seeks “his extradition and surrender to India, pending litigation (including exhaustion of all appeals), his strengths are the strengths of his February 13 petition.
In this petition, Rana argued that his extradition violated U.S. law and the United Nations Convention against Torture.
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“In this case, the possibility of torture is even higher, although the petitioner faces acute risks for the alleged Pakistani Muslims in the Mumbai attack,” the application said.
The application also stated that in this case, his “severe medical condition” made Indian detention centers extradition “de facto” death penalty.
It cites medical records starting in July 2024, confirming that Rana has multiple “acute and life-threatening diagnoses” including multiple recorded heart attacks, Parkinson’s disease, cognitive decline, suggesting a history of bladder cancer, stage 3 chronic kidney disease, and chronic asthma, and multiple Covid-199 infections.
“The petitioner, therefore, certainly raised a reliable fact, if not a compelling fact, does have substantial reasons to believe that if he surrenders to the Indian authorities, he will be at risk of torture.
Furthermore, due to his Muslim religion, his Pakistani origins, his status as a former member of the Pakistani army, the presumptive allegations’ relationship with the 2008 Mumbai attack, and his chronic health status, he was even more likely to be tortured than others, and the torture is likely to kill him. ”
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Rana’s petition, which is related to the original habeas order of January 21, 2025.
The application states that on the same day, newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Minister of External Affairs Jaishankar.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Washington on February 12 to meet with Trump, Lana’s lawyer received a letter from the State Department saying “On February 11, 2025, the Secretary of State decided to authorize Rana to “submission to India” in accordance with the “transfer treaty between the United States and India.”
Rana’s lawyers requested the State Department to provide a complete administrative record, and Rubio was decided by Rubio’s secretary to authorize Rana to surrender to India.
The attorney also requested immediate information about any commitments received by the United States from India regarding Lana treatment.
“The government refuses to provide any information on these requirements,” the application said.
It added that given Lana’s basic health status and the State Department’s own findings regarding the treatment of prisoners, it is likely that “Lana’s survival will not be long enough to be tried in India.
“The questions raised by the petitioner deserve full and careful consideration, and for him the bet is huge. At least the owed petitioner in the U.S. court is the full opportunity to litigate these issues, including the exercise of the right to appeal, and then he is entrusted to await his fate in the hands of the Indian government,” the application said.
It added that if there is no scrutiny at all, the U.S. court would lose jurisdiction, “the petitioner will die soon.
It said: “We therefore respectfully request that the Court sign an order to hold the order of extradition and surrender of the petitioner, awaiting the full hearing of the petitioner’s claims by the District Court, the Circuit Court, and, if necessary, make a writ of the certificate and further proceedings in this Court.”
U.S. President Donald Trump announced at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Modi last month that Rana’s extradition has been approved.
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