Dawood Ibrahim
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Post 1993 Mumbai serial blasts: Failed attempts to come to India
The Times of India, Jul 04 2015
Raj Shekhar
Govt blocked don's bid to come back, Chhota Shakeel reveals
Dawood Ibrahim and his deputy and most trusted aide Chhota Shakeel do not wish to return to India anymore. According to Shakeel, the Indian government turned down their proposal to return after the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, and now they are reluctant to come back. “When we wanted to come back after 1993, you people, your government didn't allow.Bhai had himself spoken that time to Ram Jethmalani, that too in London... baat ho gayi thi... But your ministry... that (LK) Advani played the game,“ Shakeel told TOI in an exclusive interview over phone from Karachi.
Shakeel opened up on a number of issues, including the bid he recently masterminded on rival Chhota Rajan which was exclusively reported by TOI on Wednesday , IPL match-fixing and his desire to continue doing “business“ in India.
He, however, got agitated when asked about information given by intelligence sources that Dawood was to be bumped off on September 16 last year when he was on his way to attend Shakeel's daughter Zoya's wedding in Karachi. Reliable accounts suggest that those interested in killing Dawood had come close to breaching the security cordon that the fugitive don has erected around himself.
This reporter had barely broached the issue that Shak eel snapped, “Who tells you all this? I have no idea. Ask what I will answer, not what I won't. These are fancies which will never turn true.(Sawal woh karo jiska jawab mai doon aapko, woh na karo jiska jawab nahin doon. Aaj tak jitni bhi aisi information aayi hai... agencies bhi jaanti hai, khayaali pulao hai, sapne dekhte hain, inka sap na kabhi poora nahi hoga).“
Shakeel accused Indian agencies of discriminating between gangs, and asked why they , or the government, had never talked about bringing back Chhota Rajan.“When agencies can hear me plotting against him (Rajan) and know where he is, why don't they get him picked up? Has he not killed people? Is he not a criminal?“ he asked.
He mocked Indian authorities for periodic declarations of their desire to bring Dawood and his aides back and make them face the law.“Every time a new government comes, they make the first statement about us. Usko leke aayenge... ghus ke laayenge... Kya halwa hai? Bakri ka bachcha samajh ke rakha hai kya? “ he said.
Shakeel confirmed that he had reached Newcastle in Australia to eliminate Rajan.“He ran away like a mouse,“ Shakeel said.
Rejection of the offer to surrender by Maharashtra government
The Times of India, Jul 04 2015 Chhota Shakeel and Dawood Ibrahim had offered to surrender in the late 90s to Indian authorities and face trial in the cases pending against him but the then Sharad Pawar government in Maharashtra had rejected it, renowned lawyer Ram Jethmalani said.
Shakeel had contacted him in London with the offer, provided he was assured that police would not torture the duo, Jethmalani said. “I don't know how he got to know that I was in London. But he contacted me and said he and Dawood were prepared to surrender to Indian authorities. He wanted an assurance from the government that they would be kept in house arrest during the trial,“ Jethmalani told TOI.
