SC ‘SNOOPING’ ORDER NOTICE

NEWDELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a plea challenging the notification authorising 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor and decrypt any computer system and sought a response within six weeks.

On December 20, the government had issued a notification empowering 10 gov- ernment agencies, under the Information Technology (IT) Act, to monitor and decrypt any information stored in electronic device on grounds of internal security.

The PIL challenging the notification came up before a bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi. WASHINGTON: There is a “strong possibility” of Pakistani-canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana’s extradition to India before the completion of his 14-year jail term in the US in 2021 for plotting the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, an informed source here has said.

Rana, 58, a resident of Chicago, was arrested in 2009 on the charges of plotting the 26/11 terror attack. Rana, a Pakistan-born Canadian national, was convicted by a federal jury of participating in a conspiracy involving a terrorism plot against a Danish newspaper and providing material support to Lashkar-e-taiba (LET), a terrorist organisation based in Pakistan.

A total of 166 people, including 6 US nationals, were killed in the attack carried out by 10 Pakistanbased LET terrorists in Mumbai. Nine of the attackers were killed by police while lone survivor Ajmal Kasab was captured and hanged after handed down death sentence by an Indian court.

In 2013, Rana was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber.

According to the US officials, he is set to be released in Decem-