The US Supreme Court has approved the extradition of Mumbai attack convict Tahawwur Rana to India. The court has rejected his review petition against his conviction in the case.

India has been seeking the extradition of Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian citizen convicted of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, for several years.

Rana lost the last legal battle too

This was the last legal chance for terrorist Rana to not be extradited to India. Earlier, he had lost the legal battle in several federal courts, including the US Court of Appeals for the Northern Circuit in San Francisco.

On November 13, Rana had filed a "petition for certiorari" in the US Supreme Court. The apex court rejected it on January 21, a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as US President.

The Supreme Court said that the petition is not acceptable. Rana is currently in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.

Hand in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack

Tahawwur Rana is considered guilty of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. The US court has now approved his extradition. The FBI arrested Rana from Chicago in 2009. Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana will soon be brought to India.

Who is Tehvvur Rana? 

Tahawwur Rana is currently lodged in a Los Angeles jail. 63-year-old Rana was an active member of Lashkar-e-Taiba and had helped terrorist David Coleman Headley. Headley is the mastermind of the Mumbai attack. India has been demanding his extradition for a long time. Now the way has been cleared to bring Rana under the India-US extradition treaty.

Born in Pakistan, became a Canadian citizen

Rana was born in Pakistan. But later he became a Canadian citizen. Before going to Canada, Rana worked as a doctor in the Pakistan Army for 10 years. Later he started plotting terrorist attacks against India.

He has travelled to many countries including Germany, England and Canada. He conspired to carry out the Mumbai attacks along with David Headley and Lashkar. On 26 November 2008, 10 Pakistani terrorists had shaken the country's financial capital Mumbai. A total of 166 people, including six American citizens, lost their lives in the terror attack.