Actress-turned-seer Mamta Kulkarni has found herself at the centre of controversy following her recent remarks that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim 'is not a terrorist'.
The spot-fixing scandal in the Indian Premier League turned murkier with the names of global terrorist and India's most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim and his close aide Chotta Shakeel surfacing in the case.
Bollywood actor-director Siddhanth Kapoor was questioned by Mumbai police in connection with a drug seizure case. The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) also summoned influencer Orhan Awatramani. The investigation is linked to a Rs 252 crore mephedrone seizure case.
A special MCOCA court in Mumbai has rejected the discharge plea of an accused in the 1992 JJ Hospital shootout case, citing sufficient evidence of involvement in the crime.
'Audiences will buy tickets for a film on Dawood, not on Swami Vivekananda.'
Sunil Shetty's company, Popkorn Entertainment, produced a dance show and celebrity exhibition cricket matches in the UAE and Abu Dhabi for Show Blitz, Attarwala's event management company.
'6 shooters went to kill Dawood in Pakistan.'
Former Maharashtra MLA and NCP leader Zeeshan Siddique has received a death threat via email, demanding Rs 10 crore and threatening to "kill him the same way" as his father, Baba Siddique, who was shot dead last year. The sender claimed to be a member of the D-company and warned Zeeshan not to contact police. Police have launched a probe into the death threat and extortion demand.
Former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi, who is under the scanner of the Income Tax department for suspected financial irregularities in the bidding process of the Twenty20 extravaganza, faces a death threat, as the underworld is allegedly conspiring to bump him off, the police said on Friday.
'He decides who will be Pakistan's prime minister, president, even provincial chief ministers.'
The list -- which has 139 entries from Pakistan -- identifies all those individuals who have lived in Pakistan, operated from there or have been associated with groups that used Pakistani territory for carrying out their operations.
India asked Pakistan to hand over underworld don Dawood Ibrahim saying enough evidence have been given to it on the prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
Underworld don and 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim is too precious for Pakistan to let go. And the recent statement by former US ambassador Robert Blackwill further dampens India's efforts to get Islamabad to hand him over, reports Vicky Nanjappa
The name of the successful bidder was not disclosed.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), which arrested Pune blast prime suspect Abdul Samad Bhatkal, is probing the possible nexus between underworld and terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM) in the case.
Siddiqui's name had cropped up in a statement given to the police by Jamiruddin Kalia, alias Jumbo, an accused in the Gutka case.
The National Investigation Agency has announced a cash reward of Rs 25 lakh for any information leading to the arrest of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, an official said on Thursday.
The filmmaker is working on his new film, Shootout at Wadala.
The latest admission appears to be a u-turn by the government, which in the past, has maintained that the underworld don lives in Pakistan.
Tariq Parveen is wanted in connection with the Sara Sahara illegal shopping complex case in south Mumbai involving underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother Iqbal Kaskar.
Indian intelligence agencies are reported to be keeping a close watch on the wedding of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's daughter with former Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad's son in Dubai.
Iqbal Attarwala arrived in Mumbai on Thursday after authorities in Dubai deported him.
The investigating agencies probing the Mumbai terror attack are looking into the role played by underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim in the attack. Intelligence Bureau officials have tipped off the police that the don could have provided vital information to the terrorists.
Along with several illegitimate businesses that Dawood Ibrahim operates, he also runs some legitimate ones that the Pakistan government is well aware of. This can happen only with the complete support of the establishment say Intelligence Bureau officials. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
They have been arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch.
Delhi-based lawyer Ajay Shrivastav purchased 'Ibrahim Mansion', the ancestral property of the underworld don in Mumbke village of Khed taluka, for Rs 11.20 lakh, the official said. Dawood's family had lived in the house before moving to Mumbai in 1983, he said.
Intelligence reports suggest that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan, that country's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has said. She said if a Pakistan Peoples' Party government came to power it will honour its commitment to India and extradite Dawood Ibrahim, who is allegedly the mastermind behind the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
Dawood's daughter, Miandad's son wedded
Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani on Saturday claimed that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim had offered to surrender to the Indian authorities in the 90s, but the then Maharashtra chief minister Sharad Pawar did not carry the matter forward.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed attachment proceedings of the properties of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's mother and sister in Mumbai.
The United States showed "lack of enthusiasm" in getting underworld don Dawood Ibrahim deported to India from Pakistan despite making some initial efforts, says senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Kishenchand Advani. Advani, in his memoir My Country My Life, notes with deep disappointment America's reticence in pressing Pakistan to hand over Dawood, wanted in connection with 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, to India.
Downplaying Pakistan's claim that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was not in its territory, the United States said on Tuesday that Dawood was "very much" in its sights and that it would like to see individuals like him apprehended.
Pakistan has stringently denied the fact that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is running his terror operations from Karachi. But terrorists arrested by Indian intelligence agencies have repeatedly admitted that India's most wanted man has taken refuge in Pakistan, with active assistance from the ISI. Ahmed Khwaja, the Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant in the custody of the Hyderabad police, recently revealed that the fugitive is protected by an impenetrable layer of security.
Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was directly involved in the deadly 26/11 attacks in Mumbai and his clandestine drug trafficking network was used to finance the terror strikes in India's financial hub, a top Russian crime buster said on Thursday. "Gathered inputs testify that infamous regional drug baron Dawood Ibrahim had provided his logistics network for preparing and carrying out the Mumbai terror attacks by the militants." a Russian officer said.
"Dawood is neither a Pakistani citizen, nor does he live in Karachi," Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told reporters in Islamabad.
The US Treasury Department said Ibrahim has links with Al Qaeda and finances the activities of Lashkar-e-Tayiba and other terrorist organisations.
The court accepted Phanse's confession that he had gone to Dubai to attend a conspiracy meeting convened by Dawood Ibrahim, thus giving a judicial finding on Dawood's involvement in the case.\n\n
The Karachi-based D-Company run by India's most wanted fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim possibly had an important role in the 26/11 carnage, according to a report on the Lashkar-e-Tayiba released by the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, the Department of Defence. The D-Company may have provided logistical support to the LeT operatives to carry out the deadly operation, adding a new dimension to the Mumbai terror attacks, it said.
While India still hopes that the end could be in sight for fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim, there are indications that the going may not be so tough for the man who still has friends in high places in the Pakistani establishment, reports eminent Pakistani journalist Amir Mir.
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