Dawood Ibrahim will be nabbed soon: Rajnath Singh

New Delhi, May 24

We will arrest and bring back India's most wanted fugitive, Dawood Ibrahim, soon, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday, although he did not specify a deadline for the task.

“Dawood will be nabbed soon. He will be brought back to India at all costs. He is an International terrorist. However, there is need to take the help of international agencies to nab him,” said Singh in an exclusive interview to a regional news channel.

“All the relevant documents against Dawood have been given to Pakistan,” he said.

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The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had said it would continue to ask Pakistan to hand Ibrahim over after a television channel claimed that it has tracked his location.

Singh also said India faced no threat from the Islamic State only days after the world’s most dangerous militant organisation warned in a video that it would avenge atrocities against Muslims in India.

“There is no threat from the Islamic State. The muslims of the country are against the ISIS. In India, the Muslim community won't allow them to do so. Besides, security is on high alert,” he said, using an acronym for the group.

Some Indian jihadists of the Islamic State, among them an engineering student from Maharashtra's Thane, had threatened to avenge demolition of the Babri Mosque and the purported killing of Muslims across the country.

Four youngsters from Mumbai's outskirts — Aarif Majid, Fahad Tanvir Sheikh, Amaan Tandel and Saheem Tanki — had fled to Syria May 2014 to join the swelling IS ranks.

Of them, Aarif Majid returned soon and has been in National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) custody since.

The video, which features Sheikh, pays “homage” to Shahim Tanki, who is said to have been killed in a bomb attack in Raqqa last year.

Dawood Ibrahim has been accused of having been the mastermind behind 13 serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993. The blasts killed over 250 people and injured over 700.  — ANI