Red corner notice had been issued against Dawood
Dawood Ibrahim
New Delhi: On Tuesday, replying to a question by a BJP MP on the gangster’s extradition, minister of state for home Haribhai Choudhary said in a written reply that Dawood was an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, and that a red corner notice had been issued against him.
“The United Nations Security Council has also issued a special notice against him. The subject has not been located so far. Extradition process with regard to Dawood Ibrahim would be initiated once the subject is located,” he said.
India has always maintained that the 59-year-old is in Karachi, under the Pakistan government’s protection, and several government dossiers handed over to Islamabad have carried details of Dawood’s whereabouts and how he is under “state protection” and funding anti-India activities from Pakistani soil. As the matter snowballed into a major controversy, Mr Chaudhary said he replied on the basis of the draft prepared by home ministry officials. The MHA’s internal security 2 Division deals with all the extradition requests sent by India to various countries.
Union home secretary L.C. Goyal, who has been asked by Mr Chaudhary to examine how the replay was drafted, has put officials on the job to determine if responsibility lay with the joint secretary who cleared the reply and on what basis.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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