Don’t know where Dawood is, govt tells Lok Sabha

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, May 5

Four years after the Government of India handed over a list of 50 most wanted fugitives, including Dawood Ibrahim, to Pakistan, the Lok Sabha was today informed that Dawood’s location is not known to the government and once he is located, his extradition process will be initiated.

Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said Dawood was an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case and a red corner notice had been issued against him.

“The United Nations Security Council has also issued a special notice against him. The subject has not been located so far. The extradition process with regard to Dawood Ibrahim would be initiated once the subject is located,” he said in reply to a written question to the Lower House.

In March 2011, the MHA, at a meeting of Home Secretaries, handed over a virtual blacklist of 50 most wanted terrorists, which included hijackers, fugitives and even Pakistan army officers, to Islamabad.

The list had the names of men who have committed acts of terrorism in India since 1993 and were either hiding or being sheltered in Pakistan.

This included the names of Dawood Ibrahim, Memon Ibrahim, alias Tiger Memon, Memon Ayub Abdul Razak, Anis Ibrahim Kaskar Shaikh, Anwar Ahmed Haji Jamal, Mohammed Ahmed Dosa and Javed Chikna, all involved in the 1993 serial bombing in Mumbai, then known as Bombay.

It also gave addresses of these people in Pakistan. The government has been maintaining for long that Dawood is living in Pakistan with the patronage of Pakistani security establishment.

In December 27, 2014, Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said Dawood was India's most wanted terrorist and India had been repeatedly asking Pakistan to hand him over to it.

On the same day, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju had said in New Delhi that India asked Pakistan to hand over the prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case as enough evidence had been given to it.

Chaudhary said India had made requests in respect of fugitive wanted by Indian authorities in terror cases namely Willy Naruenartwanch to Thailand, Usman Ghani Khan to Saudi Arabia, Abdul Wahid Siddibapa to the UAE, Velu alias Boopalan to the UK and Mohammad Hanif Tiger to the UK for expeditious extradition of these fugitives.