NEW DELHI, Dec 18: TV reports state that Dawood Ibrahim, the fugitive who masterminded the 1993 Mumbai blasts, has been admitted to a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. It is said that he was poisoned. According to reports citing sources, Dawood has also been detained at the hospital under strict security. The neighbour of India denied the claims that the wanted criminal has been in Pakistan for decades, despite multiple reports claiming otherwise. His nephew also reported to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in January 2023 that he had remarried in Pakistan and was now residing in Karachi with his family.Over 250 people lost their lives and thousands more were injured as a result of the 1993 bombings. The NIA claims that Dawood, along with Anees, Chhota Shakeel, Javed Chikna, Tiger Memon, and others, is the leader of the global terrorist network known as D Company. The NIA further states that the syndicate is actively collaborating with LeT, Jaish, and Al Qaeda and is engaged in a variety of terrorist and criminal activities, including the smuggling of arms, narcoterrorism, money laundering, the circulation of FICN, and the unauthorised possession and acquisition of crucial assets for the purpose of raising terror funds.A cash reward of Rs 25 lakh has been announced by the NIA for information leading to the arrest of Dawood Ibrahim and other members of his international terror syndicate, D-Company. The NIA filed a case against Dawood Ibrahim and company in 2022. Cash rewards of Rs 20 lakh for Shakeel Shaikh, alias Chhota Shakeel, and Rs 15 lakh each for Haji Anees, alias Anees Ibrahim Shaikh, Javed Patel, alias Javed Chikna, and Ibrahim Mushtaq Abdul Razzaq Memon, alias Tiger Memon, were also announced by the NIA in exchange for information leading to the arrest of Dawood’s four main associates.Dawood is listed as a “individual terrorist” under the Fourth Schedule of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967, and was designated a “global terrorist” by the UN under UNSC Resolution 1267.
