Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 05:20am on 22 Oct 2026,Thursday India Global
India has objected to a United Nations special rapporteur describing fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company as an “India-based” criminal group, calling the description factually inaccurate. Raghoo Puri, First Secretary at India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, raised the objection during an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism in the General Assembly’s Third Committee. Puri said the report cited the UN Security Council’s 2003 listing of the leader of “India-based D-Company” over links with Al-Qaeda but failed to mention that Ibrahim had been wanted in India in connection with terror attacks since 1993. The objection challenges the report’s characterisation of the criminal organisation.
