Rana submits renewedplea against extradition

 

 

terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana has submitted a renewed application to Chief Justice John Roberts seeking a stay of his extradition to India after the US Supreme Court rejected his emergency bid. Rana, 64, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, is currently lodged in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. He had submitted an “Emergency Application For Stay Pending Litigation of Petition For Writ of Habeas Corpus” on February 27 with Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of United States and Circuit Justice for the Ninth Circuit. A note dated March 6 on theSupreme Court website said that“Application … denied by JusticeKagan.” Rana has now renewed his

 

Emergency Application for StayPending Litigation of Petition forWrit of Habeas Corpus” previously addressed to Justice Kagan, and requests that the renewedapplication be directed to Chief Justice Roberts,” according to thesubmission by Rana’s lawyers onThursday posted on the court’swebsite. In his emergency application, Rana had sought a “stay of hisextradition and surrender toIndia pending litigation(including exhaustion of all appeals) on the merits of hisFebruary 13 petition.