Dawood targets Hindu leaders |
Target Hindu leaders seen to have had a role in the Gujarat 2002 riots and those perceived as "anti-Muslim" and get good money and jobs in South Africa: this was a line Dawood Ibrahim`s D-Company used to lure recruits to execute its plan to create communal tension in India. TOI had reported on May 6 that Dawood plotted social unrest to upset the Modi government.The National Investigation Agency chargesheet in an Ahmedabad court against 10 D-Company men accuses them of being part of a "larger conspiracy" to attack Hindu leaders that led to the gunning down of former BJP chief of Bharuch Shirish Bangali and BJP youth wing leader Pragnesh Mistry in 2015.The D-Company bosses also asked its recruits in India to throw petrol bombs made in empty liquor bottles and indulge in arson in churches. The motive was to create communal tension. "D-Company, through Javed Chikna planned to target BJP, RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal leaders...For carrying out the attacks, Rs 50 lakh was sent to Gujarat from Dubai through hawala channels by Javed Chikna while guns were also arranged by him in Mumbai and Surat through his contacts in India. For the first killings - of Mistry and Bangali - accused were paid Rs 5 lakh out of this money.
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