{"id":126608,"date":"2025-04-10T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=126608"},"modified":"2025-04-10T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:18:13","slug":"anti-terror-agency-nias-first-statement-after-tahawwur-rana-extradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=126608","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Terror Agency NIA&#8217;s First Statement After Tahawwur Rana Extradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its first statement on the successful extradition of 26\/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Tahawwur Hussain Rana recalled years of &#8220;sustained and concerted efforts to bring the key conspirator behind the 2008 mayhem to justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rana was being held in judicial custody in the US pursuant to proceedings initiated under the India-US Extradition Treaty for his extradition. The extradition finally came through after Rana exhausted all legal avenues to stay the move,&#8221; India&#8217;s top anti-terror agency which was formed after the 26\/11 attacks said in the statement today.<\/p>\n<p>The District Court for the Central District of California had ordered Tahawwur Hussain Rana extradition on May 16, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The terrorist then filed multiple litigations in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, all of which were rejected. He subsequently filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, two habeas petitions, and an emergency application before the US Supreme Court, which were also denied, the NIA said.<\/p>\n<p>The extradition proceedings were initiated between the two countries after India eventually secured a surrender warrant for the wanted terrorist from the US government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the active assistance of US DoJ, the US Sky Marshal, \u00a0NIA worked closely with other Indian intelligence agencies, NSG through the entire extradition process, which also saw India&#8217;s Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs coordinating with the other relevant authorities in the United States to take the matter to its successful conclusion,&#8221; the NSG said.<\/p>\n<p>Tahawwur Hussain Rana allegedly conspired with David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, and operatives of terrorist groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami (HUJI) along with other Pakistan-based co-conspirators to carry out the devastating terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 166 people were killed and over 238 injured in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its first statement on the successful extradition of 26\/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Tahawwur Hussain Rana recalled years of &#8220;sustained and concerted efforts to bring the key conspirator&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its first statement on the successful extradition of 26\/11 Mumbai terror attacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":126609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 6a4b5deb190636d5f833cb99. Config Timestamp: 2026-07-06 07:48:59 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-07-10 15:53:38 UTC, Optimization Time: 2.88ms -->