New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 14-year-old post on X on Tahawwur Rana, accused of plotting the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, has gone viral. For the unversed, Tahawwur Rana was extradited from the US and reached Delhi on Thursday evening. PM Modi, in his 2011 post, had criticised the previous Congress-led government’s foreign policy after the US “disgraced the sovereignty of India” by declaring Rana “innocent”.
Tahawwur Rana, accused of involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, arrived in Delhi around 6.30 pm on Thursday on a special flight. The NIA arrested him upon arrival and will be questioned by the agency today. Extradited from the US after a years-long legal battle, Tahawwur Rana was flown in to Delhi on a special flight. He faces charges of criminal conspiracy, waging war against India, murder, and violations under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
According to a Mumbai police official, Rana assisted co-conspirator David Coleman Headley in securing a long-term Indian visa and provided cover for his reconnaissance activities in Mumbai under the guise of an immigration business. Rana and Headley exchanged over 230 calls during this period, and Rana was also in contact with another accused, ‘Major Iqbal.’
Rana had visited India just days before the attacks in November 2008. As per the 2023 Mumbai police charge sheet, he stayed in a Powai hotel and discussed potential crowded targets in South Mumbai with a witness. Many of these locations were later attacked by Pakistani terrorists, resulting in 166 deaths. In 2011, a US court had cleared Rana of a direct role in helping plot the attacks that killed 166 people, but convicted him for supporting a terrorist group blamed for the attacks.
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