The National Investigation Agency will reportedly file a chargesheet in an Ahmedabad court against members of Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company who were assigned to “create unrest” and “spread communal tension” by attacking religious leaders and members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Around 10 members of D-company had allegedly planned to attack churches and leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and RSS between July and August 2015, The Times of India reported.
NIA’s Director General Sharad Kumar told ANI that the chargesheet will be filed against 10 members of D-Company. Ibrahim’s aides Javed Chikna, Zahid-Miya Sheikh and others had planned the attacks, the agency said, adding that it has asked the Interpol to help track down Chikna in Pakistan.
As part of their plans, D-Company members shot and killed two right-wing leaders, Shirish Bangali and Pragnesh Mistry, in Gujarat on November 2, 2015. The shooters were arrested and had claimed that the killings were to “avenge the hanging” of 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts accused Yakub Memon, the report added. Memon was allegedly an accomplice of Ibrahim’s. Ibrahim (pictured above) is still wanted by Indian security agencies for his involvement in the 1993 serial blasts, in which 257 people were killed and 717 injured.

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