The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced a cash reward of Rs 25 lakh for any information leading to the arrest of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
The NIA has also announced a cash reward of Rs 20 lakh on Ibrahim’s close aide Shakeel Shaikh, alias Chhota Shakeel, and Rs 15 lakh each on associates Haji Anees alias Anees Ibrahim Shaikh, Javed Patel alias Javed Chikna and Ibrahim Mushtaq Abdul Razzak Memon alias Tiger Memon.
They are co-accused in the serial blasts case, officials said. All of them are wanted accused in the case of 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts and continue to be on the run since the terror incident.
The agency has sought information about them which could lead to their arrest for the disbursal of the reward money. The agency had in February registered a case against the “D company”, a global syndicate run by Dawood.
Dawood is designated a global terrorist by the United Nation runs an international terrorist network, namely D-Company, with his close associates like Anees Ibrahim Shaikh, Chhota Shakeel, Javed Chikhna and Tiger Memon, among others, the NIA said in a statement.
They are involved in various terrorism-criminal activities such as arms smuggling, narco terrorism, underworld criminal syndicate, money laundering, circulation of FICN (fake Indian currency notes), unauthorised possession/acquisition of key assets for raising terror funds and working in active collaboration with international terrorist organisations including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Al Qaeda (AQ), the statement said.
Dawood has also been designated as a terrorist by the US State Department. In India, Dawood has been listed as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. He is suspected to be hiding in Pakistan.
India has submitted several dossiers to Pakistan on the activities of D-Company and briefed several countries on the threat posed by him to international security.