New Delhi: The US Supreme Court has cleared the extradition of 26/11 accused Tahawwur Rana to India, according to media reports.
A Pakistan-origin Canadian national, Rana has been denied a petition of writ of certiorari.
The writ was filed in November 2024 against an earlier order of a lower court that had ruled in favour of his extradition to India. A writ of certiorari is a legal document that allows a higher court to review a case from a lower court, the reports said.
With this, a major hurdle has been cleared in the path to extraditing Rana to India, reports said.
Rana's extradition to India is expected to expose many sensitive revelations regarding the Mumbai terror attacks case.
Rana was close to Pakistani American terrorist David Headley, who had recced the sites in Mumbai for the attack.
Rana faces charges for his role in the Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed. He is currently lodged in a jail in Los Angeles.
Rana was formerly an army doctor in Pakistan. He reportedly studied in Pakistan but later went to Canada as a businessman. He owned First World Immigration Services, with offices in Chicago and other locations.
A total of 166 people, including six Americans, were killed in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in which 10 Pakistani terrorists laid a more than 60-hour siege on iconic and important locations in Mumbai.