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Tahawwur Rana, accused of 2008 Mumbai attacks, has filed a plea with the US Supreme Court against his extradition to India after losing legal battle in all the lower courts. The Canadian national of Pakistani origin was denied a request for a stay on extradition on September 23 by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

Rana, in his "petitions for a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit," makes the argument that demands from India were the violations of the law. He made the same argument that he tried and was acquitted in federal court in the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago) on charges relating to the terrorist attack in Mumbai. "India now seeks to extradite him for trial on charges based on the identical conduct at issue in the Chicago case,” it said.

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The petition stated that he was very likely to be sent to India to be put on trial a second time for the same conduct, given the "elements" standard applied. “In addition, resolution of this issue will have considerable and increasing impact, as the growing globalisation of criminal law enforcement and international cooperation, which in turn has led to a dramatic rise in extraditions, will affect more and more individuals and nations going forward,” it said.

India sought Rana's extradition for his alleged role in the 26/11 attacks that killed 166 people, including six Americans at vital locations in Mumbai. Rana is known to be associated with Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the terror incident that hit India’s financial hub in 2008.

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Rana was arrested in the US in 2009 for plotting to bomb a Danish newspaper, 'Jyllands-Posten', that allegedly published a controversial image of Prophet Mohammed. He faced charges relating to his involvement in the Danish case, providing support to Lashkar, and conspiring for the Mumbai blasts. He was acquitted of the Mumbai blast charge but got convicted in the other two cases.