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Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian-Pakistani citizen and an accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks could be extradited from the United States to India by the end of this year (2024), said a report by the Indian Express. The report said that Rana can be handed over to India by the second half of December.

Reportedly, a meeting was held at the US Embassy in Delhi recently that witnessed the presence of the Central investigative agencies and legal departments of both countries.

"In the meeting, which lasted around three hours, Rana’s extradition was a key point of discussion. The talks focused on what preparations and logistics need to be in place by the Indian government to facilitate the extradition, as well as Rana’s jail arrangements once he arrives," reported the Indian Express citing sources.

The report comes over two months after the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in August ordered that Tahawwur Rana be extradited to India under the existing extradition treaty between the two nations.

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Tahawwur Rana is a Pakistani national, who was tried in a US district court on charges related to his support for a terrorist organisation that carried out large scale terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

63-year-old Tahawwur Rana was a childhood friend of David Headley. Headley, a US citizen with an American mother and a Pakistani father, who was apprehended by US authorities in October 2009 and sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in the Mumbai attacks.

Rana was a student at the Hasan Abdal Cadet School in Pakistan. Headley also studied at the same school for five years. After working as a doctor in the Pakistan Army, Rana relocated to Canada, where he eventually obtained Canadian citizenship. Later, he launched a consultancy firm known as First World Immigration Services in Chicago.

The Mumbai branch of this business provided Headley with an ideal facade to identify and keep watch on potential targets for the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

On November 26, 2008, during the 26/11 attacks, ten Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists infiltrated Mumbai, plunging the city into terror for three consecutive days.