'Those who attack India’s honour': Amit Shah reacts to Tahawwur Rana's extradition
Tahawwur Rana is expected to land in India from the US on Thursday after the US Supreme Court denied his application against his extradition to India.
Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday asserted that the extradition of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks' key accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana is a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government’s efforts to bring to justice those who attack India's honour, land, and people.
Tahawwur Rana is expected to arrive in India from the United States on Thursday after the US Supreme Court denied his application against the decision to extradite him to India.
"Tahawwur Rana's extradition is a big success of Prime Minister Modi's diplomacy," Shah said at the 'News18 Rising Bharat Summit'.
The home minister said the Modi government's effort is to bring to justice those who attack India's honour, land, and people.
"He will be brought here to face trial and punishment. It is a big success of the Modi government," he said.
Without directly naming the party, Amit Shah also took a dig at the Congress and said that those who were at the helm at the time of the Mumbai terror attack in 2008 could not bring Rana to India to face the trial.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana extradited to India
Tahawwur Hussain Rana is a key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that saw 166 people being killed by 10 terrorists., The Pakistani-origin Canadian national has exhausted all legal options available in the United States and is reportedly being brought back to India.
A multi-agency team of the central government reportedly went to the United States to bring him to India to face trial in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case.
Tahawwur Rana is expected to be brought to Delhi, where he will be initially in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which will carry out the legal formalities, PTI reported quoting sources.
Tahawwur Rana is known to be associated with Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 attacks.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Rana in Chicago a year after the attacks in October 2009 for providing support for an aborted plan to attack a newspaper in Copenhagen (Denmark) and providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
He was convicted in 2011 in that case and sentenced to 14 years in jail. However, Rana was acquitted of charges of conspiracy to provide material support to the Mumbai terror attacks.
His last-ditch effort to stop his extradition failed as the US Supreme Court denied his application, moving him closer to being handed over to the Indian authorities to face the law in the country.
