26/11 accused Tahawwur Rana can be extradited to India: US court

A US court has ruled that Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana can be extradited to India, where he is wanted for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks carried out by Pakistan based LeT terrorists.
“The (India US Extradition) Treaty permits Rana’s extradition,” the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in its ruling. Ruling on an appeal filed by 63-year-old Rana, a panel of three judges affirmed the District Court in the Central District of California’s denial of his habeas corpus petition challenging a magistrate judge’s certification of him as extraditable to India.
 Rana, currently lodged in a jail in Los Angeles, faces charges for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai attack and is known to be associated with Pakistani-American LeT terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the attacks.
Judge Milan Smith, who wrote the opinion for the bench, said “India provided sufficient competent evidence” to support the initial order of a magistrate judge’s “finding of probable cause that Rana committed the charged crimes” to allow the extradition.
Rana, a Canadian citizen living in Chicago, was arrested in the US in 2009 for plotting to bomb a Danish newspaper, ‘Jyllands-Posten’, that published a controversial image of Prophet Mohammed. He faced three main charges in a Chicago federal court relating to his involvement in the Danish case, providing support to Lashkar, and conspiring for the Mumbai attacks. He was acquitted of the Mumbai attack charge, but convicted in the other two and sentenced to 14 years.