CBI on Tuesday approached the Saudi Arabian authorities to verify reports about the detention in that country of Anees Ibrahim, brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
NEW DELHI: CBI on Tuesday approached the Saudi Arabian authorities to verify reports about the detention in that country of Anees Ibrahim, brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
The CBI query follows reports that Anees, against whom an Interpol Red Corner notice was issued at the instance of the CBI, has been detained at the Jeddah airport.
"We have approached the Saudi authorities telephonically as well as through other modes of communications," a senior CBI official said.
Anees is wanted by the CBI for his involvement in the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai.
Anees had been detained earlier in Dubai in 2002 after which he was bailed out and deported back to Pakistan despite CBI sending an extradition request on the ground that he was one of the main conspirators of Mumbai blasts.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil said the authorities are trying to ascertain the veracity of the report of his detention.
CBI had also mentioned Anees' involvement in bringing youths to Dubai and later sending them to Karachi for training.
The youths, after being trained in Karachi were, also received by Anees and later shifted to Mumbai for carrying out the gruesome attacks on selected places in the country.
Besides his involvement in the Mumbai blasts, Anees was also wanted in nearly 70 cases of murder, attempt to murder, extortion, kidnapping for ransom pending against him in several states.
Anees was detained by Dubai authorities in 1996 but was later let off for want of evidence. He was again arrested in Bahrain in the late 90s but was later shifted to Dubai, from where he was released.
Anees also figures in the much talked of list of 20 criminals and terrorists handed over to Pakistan by the previous NDA government.
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