Zee Media Bureau/Manisha Singh
Solapur: Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Wednesday that efforts were on to bring underworld don and India`s most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim back to India.
Talking to reporters in Solapur, Shinde said that the Indian authorities were in talks with America`s FBI. “Efforts are on to track Dawood. We are in talks with the FBI,” he said.
The Union Home Minister said that they had knowledge about the whereabouts of the underworld don`s and expressed confidence that they would be able to bring him back to India soon.
Shinde had said something similar in September last year. Talking to the media, he had said that India would bring everyone back one by one. “All will come. Just wait,” he had said on being asked whether there was any way Dawood would be arrested and brought back to India to face justice.
Dawood was named as India`s most wanted terrorist after the 1993 Mumbai bombings, which he allegedly organised and financed. It is said that he is staying in Pakistan at present and is protected by the ISI. However, Pakistan has steadfastly refused the allegation regarding the Mafia don.
It is also said that Dawood has close links with terror outfit al Qaeda, due to which the United Sates declared him as a `global terrorist`. His so-called illegal business is reported to be run in thousands of crores.
During the tenure of Shinde, starting from July 31 last year, Indian security agencies have been successful in bringing back several wanted terrorists including Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, a key plotter of Mumbai attack terrorists Fasih Mahmood aka Fasih Mohammed, Abdul Karim Tunda and Yasin Bhatkal.
