NEW DELHI, Feb 16: Police forces around the world will soon turn on the heat against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. With Interpol now set to issue a ‘special notice’ (SN) against Dawood, his ability to travel will be curtailed.

The special notice is a rare classification. It would have intelligence details of the wanted person’s assumed names, passports, travel records and photographs.

This information would make it difficult for the wanted person to travel. As of now, only four notices have been issued. These are for top Al Qaeda operatives – Al Zarqawi, the organisation’s point man in Iraq; Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah, a Yemen national; Lionel DuMont, a French citizen, and Tariq Anwar Al Sayeed, an Egyptian.

Dawood Ibrahim is now set to join this select group. The mastermind behind the Mumbai blasts is clearly in a bind. His recent move to get his legal consultant to approach the media objecting to remarks labelling him a terrorist indicates his anticipating the notice.—By arrangement with the Times of India