"Underworld Don Dawood Ibrahim is permanently living in Pakistan"
Lucknow : The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that, " The terror mastermind Dawood Ibrahim is permanently living in Pakistan though he may be changing locations in that country."
The Union Home Minister is attending an event here and he told reporters on the sidelines of an event, "Such people keep changing their location... but he is permanently living in Pakistan."
His remarks came after media published a report to prove that Pakistan is providing haven to the 1993 Mumbai blasts main accused Dawood Sheikh Ibrahim, his wife Mehjabeen Shaikh inadvertently told a channel that he is in Karachi.
Earlier, media published a purported recent photograph of the underworld don claiming that Indian intelligence agencies have evidence that the terrorist and his family were living in Karachi.
Asked about the picture, Singh replied that he would not say anything without verifying it. "I don't want to comment on any news," he said.
On Dawood allegedly having three passports, he said, "Such people often possess a number of passports and I have said this even in Parliament. It can be possible. There is nothing new in it."
Dawood Ibrahim is wanted in India for the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in which 257 people were killed and nearly a thousand injured. He is also accused of masterminding other terror attacks and of money laundering and extortion.
The Union Home Minister is attending an event here and he told reporters on the sidelines of an event, "Such people keep changing their location... but he is permanently living in Pakistan."
His remarks came after media published a report to prove that Pakistan is providing haven to the 1993 Mumbai blasts main accused Dawood Sheikh Ibrahim, his wife Mehjabeen Shaikh inadvertently told a channel that he is in Karachi.
Earlier, media published a purported recent photograph of the underworld don claiming that Indian intelligence agencies have evidence that the terrorist and his family were living in Karachi.
Asked about the picture, Singh replied that he would not say anything without verifying it. "I don't want to comment on any news," he said.
On Dawood allegedly having three passports, he said, "Such people often possess a number of passports and I have said this even in Parliament. It can be possible. There is nothing new in it."
Dawood Ibrahim is wanted in India for the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in which 257 people were killed and nearly a thousand injured. He is also accused of masterminding other terror attacks and of money laundering and extortion.