India readies for US extradition of Mumbai attacks suspect

Indian authorities are readying for the extradition from the United States of a man that New Delhi accuses of helping plan the 2008 Mumbai siege that killed 166 people.

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Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, a Canadian citizen born in Pakistan, is due to be extradited "shortly" to face trial, Indian media said, reporting that New Delhi had sent a multi-agency team of security officials to bring him to the country.

India accuses him of being a member of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, designated by the United Nations as a terrorist organisation, and of aiding planning the attacks.

US President Donald Trump announced in February that Washington would extradite Rana, whom he called "one of the very evil people in the world". The US Supreme Court this month rejected his bid to remain in the United States, where he is serving a sentence for a planning role in another LeT-linked attack.

New Delhi blames the LeT group as well as intelligence officials from New Delhi's arch-enemy Pakistanfor the Mumbai attacks in November 2008, when 10 gunmen carried out a multi-day slaughter in the country's financial capital.