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Pakistan-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana will remain in a prison in the United States for now as a Los Angeles judge on Thursday gave a later date for hearing in a case on his extradition to India, AP reported. Rana is a key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and was declared a fugitive by India.
Following proceedings in an in-person extradition hearing of Rana, the court of magistrate judge Jacqueline Chooljian ordered the defence lawyers and prosecutors to file additional documents in the case by July 15. Rana will remain in custody till then.
During Thursday’s hearing, Assistant US Attorney John J Lulejian told the court that Rana meets all the criteria to be extradited to India for his trial in the Mumbai terror attack. On February 4, Rana’s attorney had opposed his extradition.
India authorities have alleged that Rana conspired with his childhood friend David Coleman Headley to assist the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba in the orchestration of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, and injured more than 200. The prosecutors have said Rana’s immigration law centre in Chicago, as well as a branch office in Mumbai, was allegedly used as a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba’s terrorism activities between 2006 and 2008.
Meanwhile, Rana’s…