How Dawood Escaped Doval In 2005

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Dawood Ibrahim was the undisputed kingpin of the Mumbai underworld before he fled India in the 1980s. He was behind the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed several hundred people.

In 2003, the US Department of Treasury designated Ibrahim as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under E.O. 13224. It is widely believed that Ibrahim is living in Karachi, Pakistan, from where he runs his underworld empire. Speculations are rife that he's undergone numerous plastic surgeries and regularly travels outside of Pakistan on forged documents.

His Daughter wed Pakistani Cricketer Javed Miyandad's son and that's what this report is about.

 

Their reception was attended by about 250 people was held on July 23 (2005) at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Dubai, UAE. Interpol had earlier issued a "red corner" notice against him. After the Dubai reception, TOI reported that Ibrahim had earlier traveled incognito to Mecca for the July 9 nikah, the solemnization of the marriage. The newspaper claimed that Ibrahim entered Saudi Arabia with a false identity and a Pakistani passport.

None of the relatives/friends of Dawood went to Dubai out of fear of being too closely identified with Ibrahim in public. In early July a group of Mumbai policemen traveled to Delhi to stake out Vicky Malhotra, supposedly a right hand of Chhota Rajan (a fierce rival of Ibrahim).  Some believe this operation was done without the know of Delhi Police. On July 11 the Mumbai police arrested Malhotra while he was driving through central Delhi. Accompanying Malhotra was Ajit Kumar Doval, former head of the Indian Intelligence Bureau (And now the National Security Adviser under Modi Government). 

In the days following the arrest Mumbai Police Commissioner A.N. Roy fired senior police inspector Aslam Momin. Suspecting that Momin may have been the leak, the IS gave the Mumbai police evidence documenting Momin's underworld connections. Momin was supposedly an 'encounter-specialist' who was working in conneivence with the Ibrahim Gang. Roy said wiretapping had revealed that Momin had links with Ibrahim and Ibrahim's two brothers.  Ibrahim had used Momin to tip off the Mumbai police to arrest gangster Malhotra in Delhi, thus foiling Doval's plan to nab him, Ibrahim.