New Delhi, April 13 -- Around the time the Donald Trump administration approved the extradition of Tahawwur Rana to India earlier this year, the lawyer of the key conspirator of the 26/11 terror attacks wrote to US secretary of state Marco Rubio requesting him to "deny surrender" citing his health and a possibility of torture in India.
The request was turned down, with Rubio's office saying that the decision to extradite Rana to India complied with the obligations under United Nations' Convention Against Torture.
HT accessed these letters, written by Rana's lawyer John D Cline, along with the decisions of the district judge and ninth circuit court of California, which originally denied his pleas against extradition in 2023 and in 2024. P2...