Congress on Saturday asked Narendra Modi government how Dawood Ibrahim’s wife Mehajabin Shaikh had “managed” to visit Mumbai last year undetected.
Party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the country wants an explanation from the government over the issue.
“Dawood’s wife, Mehajabin Shaikh, came to meet her father in 2016 in Mumbai and the Modi government was sleeping,” Surjewala said.
His comments came a day after Dawood’s brother Iqbal Ibrahim Kaskar told investigators that his sister-in-law visited Mumbai sometime in 2016 to meet her father Salim Kashmiri.
“What was the Central Bureau of Investigation doing? What was the Research and Analysis Wing doing? Wife of a terrorist who is wanted in many terror cases arrives in India to meet her father and then goes back,” he said.
“Why was she not arrested? Why was no action taken against her? The prime minister, defence minister and the home minister must give answers,” he said.
Published 23 September 2017, 20:06 IST