New Delhi: India’s decades old dreams of capturing wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim seems to have been fueled in the past few months, a fact that has been reiterated by Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement that the ‘government will bring back Dawood Ibrahim’.
NewsMobile was the first channel to provide conclusive evidence to the world that Dawood Ibrahim is indeed in Pakistan and was successfully carrying out his businesses across the globe.
The calls intercepted by NewsMobile also nailed Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit’s lie that ‘Dawood is not in Pakistan’.
Javed, according to the tapes accessed by NewsMobile, looks after Dawood’s business interests in Dubai and India. Dawood was regularly heard talking to another associate, identified as Tariq, over phone from Pakistan a few months before the three calls to Javed, sources said.
While Javed reportedly manages Dawood’s businesses including real estate, narcotics, extortion, hawala, betting and fixing, not much is known about Tariq. Dawood’s one-time right hand man Tariq Parveen was arrested by Uttar Pradesh ATS earlier this year.
The intercepted calls which were inaccessible to the government are significant at a time when the Narendra Modi government has asked law enforcement agencies, Intelligence Bureau and RAW among others, to adopt an aggressive approach towards the underworld don and his business interests.
The recent crackdown by Enforcement Directorate on properties belonging to Dawood and his slain associate Iqbal Mirchi in India and abroad is seen as tightening the noose around the fugitive, who lives in Pakistan under ISI’s patronage.
The NDA government is looking to block Dawood’s properties worth over Rs 3,000 crore as its plans to financially choke his network. Several countries including Cyprus, the UAE, the UK, Morocco, Spain and Turkey will soon be approached for action on the assets, which have been allegedly acquired through anti-national activities. “There is an effort to gag Dawood’s activities by killing his businesses in India and other countries,” said an official.
The government is also trying to build pressure on Pakistan to hand over the mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, who is listed in UN’s Al Qaida sanctions list.
Rajnath Singh had recently said that Dawood would be brought back to India. “India has credible information of Dawood Ibrahim being in Pakistan. We will pursue and put pressure on Pakistan in tracking Dawood Ibrahim. India will leave no stone unturned to bring him back,” the minister had said.