India had planned a covert operation to take down underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, but the operation was compromised by some Mumbai police officials. These are the explosive revelations made by former Home Secretary and now BJP leader RK Singh in an exclusive interview with India Today's Rahul Kanwal. Also Read: 8 new addresses, passport details part of India's dossier on Dawood | Dawood permanently living in Pakistan: Rajnath Singh



RK Singh revealed details of how corrupt elements of the Mumbai police foiled a secret operation launched when Vajpayee was prime minister to take down Dawood Ibrahim. Indian government had roped in elements of Chota Rajan gang and they were being trained at a secret location. But Mumbai Police officials who were in touch with D-company landed up at the training camp with arrest warrants for the covert operatives who had been engaged by India. The entire operation to take down Dawood failed due to the rogue elements in Mumbai police. "A group was being trained to target Dawood but he had people in Mumbai police on his 'pay roll' who were alerted. The Mumbai police came saying there is a warrant against them. But I cannot say it is confirmed. I have just heard...I don't have evidence," he said.



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Arguing that Pakistan will "shamelessly" deny that Dawood is not there, Singh, said if he has to brought back, then "other methods" will have to be adopted. He said "other groups" can be funded and trained to undertake an operation.

Asked what was stopping Indian agencies to undertake such an operation, Singh said, "political determination and decision". "The Prime Minister and the Home Minister will have to tell their agencies that this has to be done. Then this will be done," he said.

Pitching for a strong retaliatory action against terror attacks in the country originating from Pakistan, Singh said India has to become like Israel otherwise "people will keep hitting us and we will keep getting hurt".

The BJP leader strongly opposed talks with Pakistan saying that everyone in the world knows it is a "snake pit" which not only patronises terrorists "but also where terrorists are born".

"Every time their credibility is down, they want to talk to India to show to come in parity with India. We should not allow that," he said.

