Noora, the brother of gangster Dawood Ibrahim has died in Karachi, police sources said on Wednesday. As per information received Noora was reportedly suffering from a kidney ailment and died in Karachi where he has been buried, they said.
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.
Anees Abraham, the younger brother of Dawood Ibrahim, has been reportedly injured after rival gangs attacked the gangster in Pakistan.
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.
Lakdawala was apprehended by Mumbai Crime Branch's anti-extortion cell team at the International Airport. He once worked for underworld don Dawood Ibrahim before forming his own gang.
The admission came after a bomb blast at a Karachi business centre, the Kawish Crown Plaza, which police said was ostensibly owned by Ahmed Jamal but actually belonged to Dawood Ibrahim'.
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.
Jabir Moti, 51, who was arrested by Scotland Yard last year, appeared before the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London at the start of his trial.
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'.
Lamboo Shakil, the 42-year-old associate of Dawood, had come to the metropolis to carry out the gang's activities.
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.
Congress charged the Narendra Modi government with tarnishing India's image by saying that the location of Dawood Ibrahim was not known.
'Cosmetic action will not cut any ice'
The Indian government has proposed a joint action with the United States to arrest the fugitive gangster and country's most wanted terrorist, Dawood Ibrahim, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said.
Fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's nephew Alishah Parkar on Wednesday tied the knot with the daughter of a Mumbai-based businessman in a traditional Muslim ceremony, with Mumbai police keeping an eye on the event.
The country's enemies, like Dawood Ibrahim and LeT chief Hafiz Saeed, should not believe that India is not "thinking" anything about them, Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said.
The officer said Haseena has accepted to have been in contact over phone with only two of the Kaskar siblings -- Mushtaqim and Humayun -- the only ones not wanted by the Mumbai police.
The Uttarakhand government on Sunday ordered an inquiry into the matter of underworld don Prakash Pandey alias PP being given the title of Mahant in Almora jail.
The don was renamed as Prakashanand Giri by the seers who introduced themselves as being associated with the Panch Dashnam Juna Akhara, headquartered in Haridwar and has its ashrams in the Kumaon region.
Patel has already been questioned by the ED in an another money laundering case linked to the aviation scam.
Boko Haram and Dawood Ibrahim have struck a deal to sell drugs in India, discovers Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed attachment proceedings of the properties of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's mother and sister in Mumbai.
Pakistan on Monday assured to "examine every evidence" that India provides with regard to its fugitives, including Dawood Ibrahim, under the joint mechanism on anti-terrorism set up by the two countries.
The complex having 350-odd galas and godown was constructed in the year 2001.
Underworld don and India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, figures third on the Forbes' Most Wanted Fugitives list.
Narendra Modi on Saturday accused Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde of giving media statements instead of acting against Dawood Ibrahim, but the Congress brushed aside the criticism.
Manish Bhangale, a Vadodara hacker, filed a PIL against Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse over his alleged links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
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.
Days after they claimed that no calls were made or received on Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse's phone number from underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's number, the Mumbai police on Wednesday said a probe into the matter is still on as some "new elements" have emerged in the case.
Suleman Dawood, 19, was on board the vessel with Shahzada Dawood as a Father's Day bonding trip when their small submarine is believed to have imploded, killing all five on board, including British billionaire-explorer Hamish Hamilton.
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.
India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan and joint efforts with the United States were being made to nab him, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Friday.
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.
Former Union home secretary-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party leader RK Singh spills the beans on Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN.
The former BCCI secretary said the Mumbai underworld don was introduced to the team as an industrialist.
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.
The US Treasury Department said Ibrahim has links with Al Qaeda and finances the activities of Lashkar-e-Tayiba and other terrorist organisations.
'After Rajan is back in India, our resident dons are almost down. I won't say that they are out. So, now the obvious question is about Dawood, and the present government, I think, is more than willing to address that issue.' 'I think the political system made this kind of people; the corporate world made this kind of people. I have mentioned in my book that even the banks were using these outlaws to get their money back.'
Audio intercepts of telephone calls was played by the Delhi police, on Tuesday, in a Delhi court to buttress its claim about the nexus between underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and bookies in the IPL spot-fixing scandal.
