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The US on Friday slapped sanctions against two Indians, including a brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and a Pakistan-based paper company for their ties with D Company.
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.
Congress on Tuesday took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party for implying that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had 'condescended' on the judiciary by appearing before the Special Investigation Team, wondering whether it would say the same thing if Dawood Ibrahim was brought before the law.
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'.
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After the November 26 attacks on Mumbai brought the Lashkar-e-Taiyba's India-based modules under the Indian intelligence and law enforcement agencies's special scrutiny, the Lashkar has changed its game plan.
The Central Bureau of investigation on Wednesday said it knew 'exactly' where Dawood Ibrahim is but Pakistan was not cooperating in handing over the international terrorist wanted in India in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts.
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The US Treasury Department said Ibrahim has links with Al Qaeda and finances the activities of Lashkar-e-Tayiba and other terrorist organisations.
The other three people chargesheeted are Arif Abubakar Shaikh, Shabbir Abubakar Shaikh and Mohammad Salim Qureshi --- all residents of Mumbai.
Pakistan has said that fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is not present in the country, a day after India asserted that its most wanted terrorist was living in the neighbouring country.
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.
Dawood Ibrahim is wanted in India to face the law of the land for carrying out serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993 in which scores of people were killed and injured.
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.
Just for a moment, says Kamaraj Gopalan, consider the possibility: Dawood Ibrahim captured a few days before the next general election. It would be Dr Singh and the Congress's Osama moment. What answer could Narendra Modi possibly have to that?
Although Jethmalani refrained from making any direct comment upon police's refusal, he felt that they should have given an opportunity for the underworld don to face the trial.
Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Iqbal Mirchi, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, died of a heart attack in London on Wednesday night.
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In an interview with CNN-IBN, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik claims that India's most wanted man, underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, is not hiding in Pakistan
'As an actor, the excitement for me is to step into those shoes and see what keeps that man going and what has made him what he is today.'
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.
"I am Dawood Ibrahim that is why I am being hounded," St Stephen's college principal Valson Thampu on Thursday said, expressing anguish over the "way" he is being "attacked" in connection with a research scholar's sexual harassment case.
Khalil Ahmed, an alleged aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, has been granted bail by a Delhi court in a 2009 case of his alleged bid to extort money from a businessman. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav granted bail to Khalil, considering that substantial evidence against him has already been recorded. The court released him on bail on a personal bond of Rs 25,000.
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During the May 24-25 talks, Home Secretary RK Singh handed over to Pakistan a list of four precise coordinates with addresses of the fugitive don's residences in Islamabad and Karachi, reports Amir Mir
'6 shooters went to kill Dawood in Pakistan.'
'He decides who will be Pakistan's prime minister, president, even provincial chief ministers.'
Dawood Ibrahim, India's most wanted fugitive is suffering from 'life-threatening' gangrene, a media report said.
The Sena said that AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi is more temperate than Khan and that Owaisi has never spoken against the interest of the country.
Former Pakistan captains' Shahid Afridi and Javed Miandad may have resolved their differences after an ugly spat, but now reports reveal that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim threatened Afridi to call truce with Miandad. According to a report in siasat.com, Dawood had called up Afridi on October 12 and threatened him with death. Dawood's daughter is married to Miandad's son and reports suggest that the gangster intervened to take side of his relative after Afridi had threatened Miandad with legal over 'match-fixing allegations'.
Thane police arrested Kaskar two days ago in Mumbai in a case of extortion.
According to officials, Salim Pistol was arrested by the Delhi Police special cell and Indian security agencies in a joint operation with the Nepal police.
'The Pakistan establishment keeps him well protected.'
Vijayvargiya also took to Twitter to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi and hit out at Rahul Gandhi using the titles of two upcoming Bollywood films, saying our country's 'Kaabil' is better than the 'Raees' of other country, apparently referring to the Congress vice president's foreign roots.
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The 1993 Mumbai bombings were a series of 12 coordinated explosions across the city on March 12, 1993, killing 257 people and injuring hundreds.
Government on Wednesday said it has not made any request to the US to track down the country's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim.
