NEW DELHI, April 9: Interpol has issued a special notice against India’s most wanted person sought for the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai that killed more than 260 people, the international police agency’s website showed. The notice sent to all 184 member countries places Dawood Ibrahim on the same list as Osama bin Laden and seeks freezing of his assets, ban on travel and an arms embargo.
The notice on www.interpol.int also gave two of Dawood Ibrahim’s possible addresses in Pakistan.
Islamabad denies he is in Pakistan.
U.S. Misra, Interpol’s vice-president for Asia and former chief of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation, said the notice issued last week would create pressure on Pakistan.
“All member countries, including Pakistan, will have to give priority in tracing him as per the UN Security Council guidelines,” Mr Misra was quoted as saying in The Times of India.
“It’s a kind of notice issued against terrorists associated with the Al Qaeda organisation.”
The notice gives details of Ibrahim’s 11 passports issued in India, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen, 17 aliases and also the countries from which he is known to operate.
Ibrahim has been on Interpol’s notice after the 1993 Mumbai blasts and the US Treasury named him on its global terrorist list linking him to Al Qaeda in 2003.
Last month, in crime control talks with Pakistan, India raised the issue of Ibrahim with Pakistani officials.—Reuters
