PM Modi's 2011 tweet slamming UPA on Tahawwur Rana resurfaces after 26/11 mastermind's extradition to India

Tahawwur Rana extradition – Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 14-year-old post on X on Tahawwur Rana is being circulated widely on social media as the 26/11 mastermind was extradited from the United States to India on Thursday evening, April 10.

In a 2011 post on Twitter, now X,  Modi, then the Chief Minister of Gujarat, had criticised the Congress-led Union government's foreign policy, accusing it of failing to uphold India's sovereignty after the United States “disgraced” the nation by declaring Tahawwur Rana “innocent”.

Late Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister of India in 2011.

PM Modi's 2011 post

“US declaring Tahawwur Rana innocent in Mumbai attack has disgraced the sovereignty of India & it is a ‘major foreign policy setback’,” PM Modi had posted on X.

In 2011, a US court acquitted Tahawwur Rana of direct involvement in planning the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people, but found him guilty of supporting the terrorist organisation held responsible for the assault.

A year after the Mumbai attacks, in October 2009, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Tahawwur Rana in Chicago for providing support to an aborted plot targeting a newspaper in Copenhagen and for offering material support to the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). In 2011, he was convicted in that case and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

However, Tahawwur Rana was acquitted of charges related to conspiracy to support the Mumbai terror attacks.

Amit Shah, others comment on Tahawwur Rana's extradition

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the extradition of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack key accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana is a big success of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government. 

“Tahawwur Rana's extradition is a big success of Prime Minister Modi's diplomacy,” Shah said while speaking at the 'News18 Rising Bharat Summit' on Wednesday, a day before Rana was brought to India to face the trial.

Earlier, PM Modi's top economic advisor, Sanjeev Sanyal also reposted Narendra Modi's 2011 tweet, claiming that the PM had ‘not forgotten’ Tahawwur Rana  being declared innocent.

Rana exhausted all his legal options available to such subjects in the US and is in India to face the law.

During a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the White House in February, US President Donald Trump announced that his administration has approved the extradition of "very evil people of the world" Rana "to face justice in India".

Tahawwur Rana's extradition

Tahawwur Rana is currently in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and will be interrogated on Friday, April 11, inside a high-security cell at the agency’s headquarters in Delhi.

The 64-year-old was flown to Delhi on a special flight and immediately placed under arrest by the NIA. In a late-night hearing, he was presented before a special court at Patiala House, which granted the agency his custodial remand until April 29.

Tahawwur Rana interrogation

A 12-member NIA team, led by Deputy Inspector General Jaya Roy, will question Tahawwur Rana with a focus on three key areas: the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks plot, his connections to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and the alleged involvement of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI, as per latest media reports.