D-Syndicate raises its ugly head again: This time on the target are Hindu leaders

India

oi-Vicky Nanjappa

Dawood
continues
to
remain
a
top
asset
for
Pakistan
which
continues
to
shelter
him
because
he
funds
the
ISI
and
many
terror
groups
with
the
money
he
makes
out
of
narcotics
trade.

New
Delhi,
Aug
06:
Recently,
there
has
been
a
lot
of
activity
relating
to
the
D-Gang
with
several
persons
being
arrested.
This
week
the
National
Investigation
Agency
(NIA)
arrested
Mohammad
Salim
alias
Salim
Fruit
in
connection
with
cases
relating
to
smuggling,
narco-terrorism,
money
laundering,
circulating
fake
currency
and
raising
funds
for
terror
activities.

Salim
is
a
close
associate
of
D
Company
and
has
played
an
active
role
in
extorting
huge
sums
of
money
in
the
name
of
Dawood
Ibrahim’s
right-hand
man,
Chotta
Shakeel.

The
arrest
comes
close
on
the
heels
of
the
Maharashtra
Anti
Terrorism
Squad
(ATS)
arresting
47-year-old
Parvez
Zuber
Vayed
Memon,
a
resident
of
Versova
in
Andheri.
He
is
an
associate
of
Dawood’s
brother
Anees
Ibrahim
and
the
ATS
said
that
he
was
picked
up
on
the
charges
of
raising
funds
for
acts
of
terror.

Sources
in
multiple
agencies
tell
OneIndia
that
the
ISI
has
tasked
the
D-Company
to
carry
out
terror
strikes
in
India.
The
D-Gang
has
a
deep-rooted
network
in
many
parts
of
the
country
and
they
have
been
asked
to
double
up
as
terror
modules,
and
strike
terror
in
India.

NIA
arrests
member
of
Dawood
gang
for
‘aiding
terrorist
activities’

Earlier
this
month
a
Delhi
court
was
told
by
Danish
Ahmed,
a
close
aide
of
Dawood’s
nephew,
that
the
gang
had
placed
an
order
to
purchase
40
AK-47
rifles.
They
got
in
touch
with
a
Russian
agent.
The
deal
however
did
not
go
through
after
the
agent
learnt
that
the
weapons
were
going
to
be
used
for
attacks
in
Mumbai
and
Jammu
and
Kashmir.

These
developments
show
that
Dawood
continues
to
remain
a
top
asset
for
Pakistan
which
continues
to
shelter
him
and
also
deny
about
his
existence
in
their
country.
Dawood
remains
a
top
asset
because
he
funds
the
ISI
and
many
terror
groups
with
the
money
he
makes
out
of
narcotics
trade.

The
sources
cited
above
said
that
apart
from
carrying
out
terror
strikes,
the
D-Gang
has
also
been
tasked
with
carrying
out
targeted
killings
in
India.
The
targets
on
their
radar
are
politicians
and
Hindu
leaders,
the
source
also
pointed
out.

In
this
regard,
the
NIA
had
busted
a
module
of
the
gang
in
Mumbai.
It
was
learnt
that
Shakeel
was
sending
money
to
this
module
which
was
scouting
for
targets
in
the
country.

The
agencies
were
also
able
to
bust
another
module
which
had
hired
sharpshooters
to
kill
Hindu
leaders.
It
was
learnt
that
members
of
the
RSS
and
VHP
were
on
their
hit
list.
The
entire
operation
was
plotted
by
Rasool
Party,
a
close
aide
of
Dawood
Ibrahim.
The
Intelligence
Bureau
had
been
tracking
the
calls
between
Party
and
the
sharpshooters
since
December
2018.
One
of
them
was
an
Afghan
national,
while
another
is
from
Kasargod
in
Kerala.

‘Dawood
in
Karachi,
sends
Rs
10
lakh
every
month
to
siblings
in
India’:
Witness
in
Nawab
Malik’s
case
tells
ED

Riyazzudin,
Mohammad
Saifi
and
Muthasim
were
handpicked
by
Party
to
undertake
this
operation.
Muthasim,
a
resident
of
Kerala
had
shared
the
targets
with
Saifi.
Riyazuddin
was
later
roped
in
and
was
told
to
procure
the
arms
for
the
operation.
At
the
time
of
their
arrest,
the
police
recovered
a
pistol
and
six
live
cartridges
from
them.

Party
has
been
under
the
radar
of
the
agencies
for
long.
He
is
one
of
the
key
conspirators
in
the
murder
of
former
Gujarat
home
minister
Haren
Pandya.
Party
is
a
key
player
and
was
instrumental
in
transporting
several
youth
from
Gujarat
and
Hyderabad
to
a
terror
module
in
Bangladesh.