Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday wondered if there was anyone at all who had the “capacity” to arrest notorious criminal Dawood Ibrahim.
Parrikar who was speaking in response to a Calling Attention Motion, also said that had Goa’s illegal mining industry been allowed to function unhindered, then the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim included would have invested in it.
“I don’t know if anyone has the capacity of arresting Dawood (Ibrahim). The Government of India has been trying it for 25 years,” Parrikar said.
Parrikar further said that there was so much money involved in the illegal mining industry in Goa that the underworld would have soon been attracted to it.
“If mining illegalities had continued then Dawood would have also come here. The kind of money involved in illegal mining would attract the underworld,” Parrikar said.
The Supreme Court has imposed a ban on mining in Goa following a petition filed by Environmental NGO, the Goa Foundation, represented by senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan.
The petition came in the aftermath of the tabling of the Justice Shah Commission of Inquiry report which was tabled in Parliament which exposed a Rs 35,000 crore illegal mining scam in Goa.