A reward of Rs 25 lakh has been announced on underworld don Dawood Ibrahim on Thursday by the National Investigation Agency.
Meanwhile, NIA has also placed a reward of Rs 20 lakh on Chhota Shakeel. Several suspicious cases have been registered against gang members including underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
Earlier on 18 August 2022, NIA released a press note in which Dawood Ibrahim was designated as a “Global Terrorist” by the United Nation under United Nations Security Resolution 1267.
“Ibrahim and other associated of him are involved in various terrorism, and criminal activities such as arms smuggling, Narco terrorism, underworld criminal syndicate, money laundering, circulation of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), unauthorized possession and acquisition of key assets for raising terror funds and is working in active collaboration with the international terrorist organization including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Al Qaeda (AQ).”
At the same time, NIA has also placed a reward of Rs 15 lakh each on Anees alias Anees Ibrahim, Javed Patel alias Javed Chikhna Ibrahim and Mushtaq Abdul Razzaq Menon alias Tiger Menon. A reward of Rs 20 lakh has also been placed for Shakeel Shaikh.
According to NIA sources, underworld don Dawood is engaged in preparing a unit to smuggle explosives, weapons, drugs, and counterfeit Indian currency notes into India. It is being told that in this work of Dawood, help is being given from the Pakistani spy agency ISI and some terrorist organizations.
Moreover, NIA arrested one Mohd Salim Mohd Iqbal Qureshi alias Salim Fruit on 5 August who is also the brother-in-law of gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s close aide Chhota Shakeel.
“Salim Fruit, a close aide of D Company, played an active role in extorting huge amounts of money in the name of Chhota Shakeel via property dealings and dispute settlements for raising terror funds in furtherance of terrorist activities of D Company,” NIA said.
However, in the case relating to the activities of D Company, the arrest was made and the case was filed suo moto on 3 February.