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Two attempts RAW made on the life of Dawood but Govt. balked it at last minute.
Two attempts RAW made on the life of Dawood but Govt. balked it at last minute. | defence lover
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Two attempts RAW made on the life of Dawood but Govt. balked it at last minute. | defence lover
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Two attempts that the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) made on dawoods life in 1994. Though the killing mission had been worked to the minutest detail, they were aborted at last minute as the highest police authorities balked at it.
The first plan was to send a team of highly-trained assassins to Karachi where Dawood lives in a palatial house in upmarket Clifton area close to the beach. A team of four assassins was provided extensive training in the use of sophisticated arms and explosives and also briefed about the geography of the Clifton neighbourhood . A getaway plan was also worked out.
The government gave preliminary approval for the plan following which the hit squad was flown to Kathmandu, given fake Nepalese passports and dispatched to Karachi. The arms and ammunition were sent across to a safe house in Karachi by using the route used by smugglers. The area was closely recced. Even as the assassins, who were all hardcore members of the Chhota Rajan gang, were making last-minute preparations to go for the kill, the central government, led by the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, asked that the plan be put on hold.
Sleuths of R&AW had been keeping a close watch on the movements of Dawood. He used to fly to Jeddah, Singapore and other destinations in a special aircraft accompanied by his handlers in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan. We planned to send Indian Air Force jets to escort Dawoods aircraft once it left Pakistani airspace and then force it to land in Mumbai. This was riskier than the earlier plan, but we were confident of pulling it through. However, once again the government developed cold feet, the official stated.
Sources in the Mumbai police said it was a matter of shame that a criminal living in Pakistan was able to conduct his illegal operations in India with impunity and nothing was being done by the government to neutralise him. The government is even afraid to hand over to us the dozen properties of Dawood in Mumbai which were seized by the income tax department.