US court approves extradition of 26/11 Mumbai attack accused.

A US court has approved the extradition of Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana to India where he is wanted for his role in the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai.

Rana was convicted in 2011 of supporting an Islamic militant group blamed for the attack on India's financial capital that killed 166 people.

But he was cleared of the more serious charge of helping plot the attack.

The businessman was arrested after an extradition request by India in 2020.

Rana, who denied all the charges against him, had challenged India's extradition request which was also supported by the US government.

But a court on Monday consented his extradition. The court said that Rana had been charged in India with criminal conspiracy, committing terrorist acts and murder - all of which are extraditable offences as per the treaty between US and India.

It, however, added that Rana will remain in US custody till the Secretary of State to India takes final decision on his extradition.

More than 160 people were killed in November 2008 when a group of 10 men stormed a train station, hotels and cafes and a Jewish centre, shooting and throwing bombs.

Indian authorities accused Rana, a Pakistani-born Canadian, of conspiring with his childhood friend David Coleman Headley to assist Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which was blamed for the attack.
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