New Delhi: India has expressed strong objection to the description of Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company in the United Nations as an Indian criminal gang. India said that such irresponsible statements harm the credibility of a global organization like the UN. This matter is related to a report by UN Special Rapporteur Ben Sall. Ben Sall reports on the issue of protecting human rights during counter-terrorism operations. In his report, D-Company was linked to India, on which India took a strict stance.
India expressed strong objection in UN
Raghu Puri, First Secretary of India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, responded to this. He said that India has already expressed concern over such factually incorrect reports in many forums, but the Special Rapporteurs are not held accountable for the same. He said this is unfortunate for an institution that is already facing questions about its legitimacy.
Clearing the record, Puri said that Dawood Ibrahim was banned by the United Nations Security Council in 2003 due to his links with Al-Qaeda. This organization is not an Indian gang.
Dawood is wanted in India since 1993
Raghu Puri said that Dawood Ibrahim is wanted in India since the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts. He had fled from India and was living abroad and while there, he was included in the UN list due to his links with Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. He told that this person had left India long before coming in the list.
India targeted Pakistan
India also targeted Pakistan through gestures. Puri said that according to UN information, Dawood was living in the same country where al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was found and killed. It is noteworthy that Osama bin Laden was killed in an American operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan in 2011. Along with this, India clearly said that Dawood Ibrahim is still a wanted criminal in India and calling him an Indian gang is completely wrong and beyond the facts. India has demanded from the UN that the facts should be properly verified while issuing such reports in future.