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Publication: The Free Press Journal
Date: October 21, 2003
Underworld don and now a "global
terrorist", Dawood Ibrahim, has gained a substantial ground in Uttar Pradesh
and Gujarat to destablise the law and order by fomenting communal tension,
according to an intelligence report, reports PTI.
Dawood's D-company colluded with
the ISI to create political instability and lawlessness and was concentrating
on districts along the Indo-Nepal border, the report said.
It said that the D-company continued
to maintain an important office in the Himalayan kingdom which monitored
the flow of drugs and weapons in Uttar Pradesh.
The areas identified by the intelligence
agencies as under Dawood's operation were Gorakhpur, Siddarth Nagar, gonad,
Baharaich, Khiri, Pilibhit and Nanital districts.
The report said that the transport
agencies and truck drivers were the main targets for their job besides
the local criminals who were hired to eliminate any officer who created
hindrance in smuggling of drugs and arms from Kathmandu.
The declaring of Dawood as a Global
Terrorist by the United States was seen as a victory of the Indian intelligence
agencies, who had submitted a dossier to the US authorities during the
visit of Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani earlier this year.
The report, which also formed the
part of dossier given to the US officials, said that Bharauch district
in Gujarat was a favourite hideout for Dawood Ibrahim's gang.
It said that the ISI used Dawood's
influence in this state to carryout its anti-national operations.