'Dawood offered to return to India in 2013, but UPA govt rejected'

August 11, 2015 10:30

Indian Express reports: As recently as 2013, a Delhi-based lawyer, who is also a Congress leader, communicated to his party leadership that underworld fugitive Dawood Ibrahim was ready to "return" to India.

Confirming this, top officials of the former UPA government said the "offer to return" was discussed at the "highest level" within the party and the government -- two decades after Dawood first expressed his "willingness" to face trial in India, months after the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.

The "offer", The Indian Express has been told, was also discussed between former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Shivshankar Menon, the then National Security Advisor.

The lawyer, who is said to have discussed Dawood's "offer" with at least two senior Congress leaders, was told it was too much of a "hot potato" and that the prospect of conducting a trial against India's most wanted on his terms was too risky.

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