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.

In 2005  Dawood's Daughter wed Pakistani Cricketer Javed Miyandad's son. Their reception was attended by about 250 people and 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 travelled 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 travelled to Delhi to stake out Vicky Malhotra, supposedly a right hand of Chhota Rajan (a fierce rival of Ibrahim) and also a sharp shooter. Some believe this operation (by the Mumbai Police) was done without the know of Delhi Police. For that matter obviously the IB operation was also done without communicating with any police department- which although a standard practice for intelligence agencies, led to a confusion and sabotage of the entire mission. In a dramatic turn of events, on July 11, the Mumbai police arrested Malhotra while he was driving through central Delhi.

Allegedly, accompanying Malhotra was Ajit Kumar Doval, former head of the Indian Intelligence Bureau (And now the National Security Adviser under Modi Government). Rumours went rife that this was an operation where IB was to leverage the gang rivalries to take out its nemesis.

Although Doval's reputation and his fear among underworld thugs speaks for itself, his involvement in any degree with the said mission, or such plan of IB, cannot be confirmed or denied. However if there was indeed a plan, it was sabotaged in the confusion that ensued between departments. 

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 IB gave the Mumbai police evidence documenting Momin's underworld connections. Momin was supposedly an 'encounter-specialist' who was working in connivance with the Ibrahim Gang. Roy said wire-tapping had revealed that Momin indeed 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 probable plan to nab him, Ibrahim. Police officials never commented whether these were just rumours or otherwise.

[From wikileaks cable dated 2005 August 8, 09:38] 

The entire episode is also described vividly in the book"Dongri to Dubai"

 

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GP.

 

Inko saari same officer and inko sharp shooter tho ilane jarigindhi. Pinna cheppina officer(appatiki oficially retired but unoficially working) chota rajan gaadi sharp shooter tho kalisi edho gulf country ki poyaru dawood gaadini covert ga veseyyadaniki. But manollu interpol lo evariki cheppaledhu. Akkada airport lo aa sharp shooter gaadini criminal ga identify chesi iddarni room loki pattukelli interrogate chesaru. Adhi news lo vachi pedha racha ayyindhi. Govt open ga cheppaledhu so paapam aa govt officer ki underworld tho links unnayi. Idhi aadi personal matter ani vaadini book chesaru. Aa debatho dawood gaadu Dubai inka safe kaadhu ani Karachi ki shifted inka.