Tahawwur Rana, who’s at the moment within the federal lockup in downtown Los Angeles
New Delhi:
India is in common contact with the US authorities for a speedy and early extradition of Tahawwur Rana, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra mentioned on Thursday in opposition to the backdrop of a US court docket approving extradition of the 26/11 Mumbai assaults accused.
In a significant victory for India’s battle in bringing perpetrators of the 26/11 assaults to justice, US Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian of the US District Court of the central district of California issued a 48-page order on May 16, saying Rana must be extradited to India.
“Insofar because the query of Tahawwur Rana is anxious, we’re in very common contact with the US authorities to make sure that there may be speedy and early extradition of Tahawwur Rana. We have all seen the judgement which was given by the native US court docket there. That dialog of ours with the US facet is continuous,” Kwatra mentioned.
He was replying to a query at a media briefing on whether or not Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take up the difficulty of Rana’s extradition to India if there’s a bilateral assembly between him and US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima.
Kwatra didn’t affirm a bilateral assembly between Prime Minister Modi and President Biden.
“The bilateral conferences on the sidelines of the G7 summit are nonetheless being firmed up. So I’m not going to make any assumptions about which assembly will occur and which is not going to,” he mentioned.
Prime Minister Modi will depart for Hiroshima on Friday to attend three separate periods on the G7 summit.
The ruling on Rana’s extradition got here simply over a month earlier than Prime Minister Modi travels to the US on his first state go to on the invitation of Biden.
The 48-page order dated May 16 was launched on Wednesday.
Rana, who’s at the moment within the federal lockup in downtown Los Angeles, can attraction within the Circuit Court.
There is an extradition treaty in place between India and the US. The decide dominated that Rana’s extradition to India is absolutely below the jurisdiction of the treaty
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