A Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin wanted for his alleged role in the deadly Mumbai 2008 seat landed in New Delhi after his extradition from the United States.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, arrived in a military air base outside the Indian capital in the strongly armed care on Thursday, and will be detained in detention to be tried.
India accuses Rana of being a member of the Lashkar-E-Taiba group (Let) based in Pakistan, designated by the United Nations as a terrorist organization and of helping to draw the attacks.
The National Investigation Agency said that it “assumed the successful extradition of … Mumbai Terror Attack Mastermind Tahawwur Rana in the United States”.
The extradition has taken “years of supported efforts and concerted to bring the key conspirator of Chaos in 2008”.
Donald Trump announced in February that Washington would extradite Rana, that he called “one of the very bad people in the world”.
Rana was transported by plane to India after the United States Supreme Court rejected her attempt to stay in the United States this month, where he was serving a sentence linked to another rental-related attack.
New Delhi blamed the LET group – as well as intelligence officials from the New Delhi, Pakistan – for Mumbai’s 2008 attacks in which 10 Islamist armed men made a massacre of several days in the country’s financial capital, killing 166 people and injuring hundreds more.
India accuses Rana of having helped his long -term friend, David Coleman Headley, who was sentenced by an American court in 2013 to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty of having helped activists, in particular by having the locations targets in Mumbai.
Rana, who denies the accusations, is accused of having played a smaller role than Headley, but India maintains that it is one of the key plotters.
Rana “is accused of conspiracy with David Coleman Headley, and agents of designated terrorist organizations (based in Pakistan) Let and Harkat-Ul-Jihada Islami … to carry out devastating terrorist attacks,” said NIA in the press release.
Rana, a former military doctor who served in the Pakistani army, emigrated to Canada in 1997, before moving to the United States and creating companies in Chicago, including a law firm and a slaughterhouse.
He was arrested by American police in 2009.
An American court in 2013 acquitted Rana of a conspiracy to provide material support for Mumbai attacks. But the same court found him guilty of supporting Lett to provide material support for a conspiracy to commit murder in Denmark.
Rana was sentenced to 14 years for her involvement in a conspiracy to attack the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which had published caricatures representing the Prophet Muhammad.
In February, Fadnavis, Minister of State of the Maharashtra, who includes the megapacity Mumbai, said that “finally, the long wait is over and that justice will be done”.
