Tahawwur Rana extradition case: What will happen after the Mumbai terror attacks accused lands in India?

Tahawwur Rana, co-conspirator in 26/11 Mumbai attacks, to be extradited to India from U.S. on April 10, 2025.

Tahawwur Rana, one of the co-conspirators in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is set to be extradited to India from the U.S. on Thursday (April 10, 2025).

Rana is being brought to India after his last-ditch attempt to evade extradition failed as the U.S. Supreme Court justices rejected his application.

According to officials, a multi-agency team had gone to the U.S. to bring him to India.

Tahawwur Rana is wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for his role in the November 26, 2008 terror attack, in which 10 Pakistani terrorists laid a more than 60-hour siege to various iconic locations in the heart of Mumbai, including the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Taj Mahal Hotel, Nariman House and the Cama and Albless Hospital. A total of 166 people, including six Americans, were killed in the horrendous attack.

Rana, 64, is a Pakistan-born Canadian national and close associate of one of the main conspirators of the terror attacks, David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a U.S. citizen. He was accused of helping him and others located in Pakistan to assist terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in carrying out the Mumbai attacks.

In 2013, Tahawwur Rana was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the United States and will face trial in India after 17 years of the attacks that killed more than 166 people in 2008. 

U.S. authorities handed over custody of 64-year old Tahawwur Rana on Tuesday night (April 8, 2025) in California to a special team from the National Investigative Agency (NIA), who travelled to the U.S. to accompany him on board an Indian plane back to India. The sources said the plane is likely to land in New Delhi before Rana is transferred to custody and the trial process begins.