Tahawwur Hussain Rana—a Canadian national of Pakistani origin—is being extradited to India after the US Supreme Court rejected his appeal against his extradition. Rana is being flown to India under the coordination of an Additional Director General of Police (ADG)-rank officer from the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The operation for his extradition is being carefully managed, and Rana will first be taken to Delhi, where the NIA has registered a separate conspiracy case in connection with the 26/11 attacks, filed in 2009.

The main case related to the 26/11 terror attack remains with the Mumbai Crime Branch, which continues its investigation. It is yet to be decided if Rana’s custody will be handed over to the Crime Branch, but arrangements have already been made for his incarceration at Arthur Road Jail, in accordance with the extradition standards set by the US. Sources have indicated that Rana will be kept in the same barrack where 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab was previously held.