Media reports in Pakistan suggested that Ibrahim's condition worsened after a sudden heart attack

Even as some media reports are speculating that India's most-wanted underworld don Dawood Ibrahim has died after being recently hospitalised, his close aide Chhotta Shakeel told Indian media that "Bhai is fit and fine."

Some media reports in Pakistan suggested that Ibrahim's condition worsened after a sudden heart attack, and that he had been suffering from multiple ailments for some time now.

Talking to Times of India over the phone from Karachi, Shakeel said all the reports about Dawood Ibrahim's death are plain wrong. "Listening to my voice, do you think any such thing has happened? These are all rumours," he said.

According to the NDTV, India has been trying to trace the 61-year-old Dawood for years, wanted for plotting the serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993 that claimed 257 lives and injured over 700 people.

He also faces charges for money laundering and extortion.