New Delhi: A day after airing a sting video which showed Dawood Ibrahim's house in Clifton area of Karachi, CNN-News18 on Thursday aired audio tapes in which serving police officers talk about the terror don's movements in the city.
These police officers were caught on tape saying how Dawood is surrounded by his own security men, how he moves around in the neighbourhood and how local police were not allowed at his bungalow, D 13, Block 4, Clifton, Karachi.
CNN-News18 Investigations Editor Manoj Gupta spoke to these officers in Karachi under the guise of DIG Mushtaq Sukhera. First he spoke to Akbar, the local intelligence police officer attached to the VVIP area, who readily testified the don's address next to the Abdullah Gazi mosque.
Akbar said Dawood moves around once or twice a week, that it was very difficult to make out who is inside the cars, and that he last spotted the convoy fifteen days earlier.
The next man, Zaheer, who is the duty officer at the Boat Basin police Station, said local police are not kept in the loop about Dawood's movements and that it's a top-secret operation handled by a private security team along with ISI officials.
Another testimony showed that Dawood in fact has a masjid built inside his sprawling compound and that he is also a regular visitor at the nearby shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi. The senior manager there, Punhun Khan, was caught on tape saying Dawood's bungalow is right next to the masjid.
Post the sting operation CNN-News18 learned that Dawood's security is handled by SMS Security, a firm owned by Javed Chikna, an accomplice who fled from Mumbai to Pakistan after the 1993 blasts.
For the last 23 years India has made several attempts to locate and bring back Dawood Ibrahim, the underworld don who is the mastermind of the 1993 Bombay blasts which killed 257 people.
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