India Rebukes UN Report for Calling Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company an ‘India-Based’ Criminal Group

India has strongly objected to a report by a United Nations special rapporteur that described fugitive underworld figure Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company as an “India-based” criminal organisation. Speaking at the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, Raghoo Puri, First Secretary at India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, said the description was factually inaccurate and failed to reflect key details about the group and its leader. Puri stressed that Dawood Ibrahim has been wanted in India in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts and criticised the report for omitting this context.

Dawood Ibrahim was added to the UN Security Council’s Al-Qaida sanctions list on November 3, 2003, over links to Al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, according to the UN’s official records. The listing includes information identifying him as an Indian national and records addresses in Karachi, Pakistan. India argued that the report should accurately distinguish the group’s origins from the current location of its fugitive leader. The Indian mission said inaccurate descriptions in official UN reports could undermine the credibility of the organisation and called for the facts to be represented correctly.