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Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aides, Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon, were given Pakistani citizenship a month ago, according to information gathered by central intelligence agencies and the Mumbai police's intelligence wing.
A home ministry team is now trying to double-check the reports.
All three figure on top of India's list of 20 criminals and terrorists, which was submitted to Pakistan while calling for their deportation.
The reports said Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar's new name as a Pakistani citizen was Iqbal Seth (alias Amir Saheb). Haji Mohammed is Chhota Shakeel's new identity and Tiger Memon is now known as Ahmed Jamail. Dawood and Shakeel were last spotted in Peshawar.
Before he became a Pakistani national, Dawood possessed ten passports-eight of them issued from Mumbai. The others, which were the most recent, were issued in Pakistan, including one numbered G- 866537, issued from Rawalpindi on August 12, 1991 in the name of Shaikh Dawood Hassan, and one in his real name in 1992. Dawood now holds bank account in Karachi in the name of Iqbal Seth and is trying to shift all his movable property spread across several Pakistani cities into this account, according to reports.
The Intelligence Bureau had informed the government last week that Dawood and Shakeel had been recently allowed by the Pakistani authorities to take up residence in Islamabad . They had also been to allowed to call over their assistants, Fahim and Nasser Chrasi, to Islamabad. The two have been allowed to call over their assistants, Fahim and Nasser Charasi, to Islamabad. The two have been allowed access to satellite phones to keep in touch with their associates in any country except India.
Does India now have any hope of
getting back its most wanted? Former additional solicitor general Abhishek
Singhvi said, “Ultimately, extradition depends on the domestic legislation
of the host\sending country. Some legislation has an exception in favour
of domestic citizens, whereby such citizens might not be extradited. In
case there is no such bar, extradition is possible.” However, he added,
“Extradition depends not so much on a treaty or a statute, but on the vibes
between the host country and the requesting country. Countries with not-so-good
relations inordinately prolong the extradition process despite a treaty.
The only remedy in such cases can be international pressure.”
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