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By Vinay Kumar
In the absence of any official communication from either the UAE or the Dubai Police, the CBI remained in "total darkness" over Ibrahim's whereabouts. Barring a communication from the UAE authorities on December 11, asking the CBI to send its extradition request for him, the agency has not heard anything from Dubai through any official channel. Anees is the brother of the Karachi-based underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim, and an accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case. Reports mentioned the possibility of his having been taken either to Bahrain or Muscat from where the Pakistani agencies could have arranged for a safe passage for him to Karachi. Dawood is also one of the main accused in the Mumbai blasts case. Asked about media reports from Dubai that Ibrahim could have made it safely to Pakistan, the CBI Director, P. C. Sharma, told The Hindu that he was writing to the UAE authorities to know the details officially. The reports were "disturbing,'' he said, wondering why the confusion over Anees' arrest was not being cleared either at the government or diplomatic level in Dubai. Initial reports had referred to his release on bail. It was also not clear if Anees had been arrested for his involvement in the murder of a fellow Indian businessman in 1995, or on the basis of an Interpol Red Corner alert notice in 1993 for his involvement in the Mumbai blasts. "We are trying to ascertain everything,'' he said. Government sources said that there was a difference in dealing with the authorities in Dubai and the federal set-up in the UAE, headquartered at Abu Dhabi. While deportation could have been decided by the Dubai authorities, the extradition request would be examined and decided by the federal authorities in Abu Dhabi. There was also a possibility of the Dubai police authorities having quietly deported him to Pakistan. Viewing the reports of deportation of the 42-year-old Anees "seriously,'' sources said India was likely to take up the issue with the UAE at the diplomatic level, pointing out the "fishy role'' of the law enforcement authorities in Dubai. Anees was also let off in 1996 when he was arrested in Bahrain and deported to Dubai from where he landed safely in Pakistan. A CBI team had then too rushed to Bahrain but could achieve nothing.
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