New Delhi:
Union Residence Minister Amit Shah asserted that the extradition of Tahawwur Rana, accused within the 26/11 terror assaults, is a “large success” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities’s diplomacy.
He additionally took a veiled dig at Congress, with out taking its identify, saying the “governments below whose rule the bomb blasts passed off couldn’t carry him again”.
Rana has been accused of being concerned within the 2008 Mumbai terror assaults, the place harmless folks had been killed, and is anticipated to face trial in India.
जिन लोगों ने भी भारत की ज़मीन और भारत के लोगों के साथ दुर्व्यवहार किया है, उन सभी को देश के क़ानून के अधीन भारत लाना भारत सरकार का दायित्व है। ताहववुर राणा की वापसी मोदी सरकार की कूटनीति की बहुत बड़ी सफलता है, क्योंकि जिन सरकारों के शासन में बम धमाके हुए, वे उसे वापस नहीं ला पाए:…
— Workplace of Amit Shah (@AmitShahOffice) April 9, 2025
“It’s the duty of the Indian authorities to carry again all those that have misbehaved with the land and other people of India below the legislation of the nation. The return of Tahawwur Rana is an enormous success of the Modi authorities’s diplomacy, as a result of the governments below whose rule the bomb blasts passed off couldn’t carry him again,” Workplace of Amit Shah mentioned in a submit on social media platform X.
On April 7, the Supreme Courtroom of america rejected Tahawwur Rana’s plea to remain his extradition to India. Rana filed an emergency software with Chief Justice Roberts on March 20, 2025, in search of a keep on his extradition.
“The appliance for keep addressed to The Chief Justice and referred to the Courtroom is denied,” the SC order dated Monday, April 7, acknowledged.
In line with the Mumbai Crime Department, a case of felony conspiracy in opposition to Rana was initially lodged by the NIA in Delhi following the lethal November 2008 assaults during which over 160 folks had been killed.
The continued extradition course of pertains to that case. Nevertheless, officers clarified that it’s but to be decided whether or not Mumbai Police can search his custody for any native investigation linked to the assaults.
“Solely after analyzing the grounds of extradition will or not it’s clear whether or not custody might be sought by the Mumbai Crime Department on this matter,” sources mentioned.
Sources added that the Mumbai Police has not acquired any formal communication to date concerning Rana’s switch to town for questioning or judicial proceedings.
Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian nationwide, was convicted within the US for the banned terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives and offering materials help to the group accountable for the Mumbai assaults that killed over 174 folks.
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