“Incompetence Does Tremendous Harm” India Rejects Factual Error in UN Report Mapping Dawood’s Location

In a blistering speech at the UN Third Committee of the General Assembly, India had a fit and worthy rebuke for a global report that mispronounced the notorious criminal syndicate D-Company as an India-based organisation. Indian diplomat Raghoo Puri, First Secretary at India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, was there to correct it. And it is the UN’s own official record that is completely contradictory to the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism.

 Saul's report “Distinguishing organized crime from terrorism to protect human rights” was published earlier this year. India declared the document biased and factually wrong. The mandate holder did not provide sufficient background for the UN 1267 Sanctions Regime narrative which lays out the global operations and where the mastermind has been involved in acts of global terror. In the rebuttal, Puri reminded the audience that Dawood Ibrahim, the head of D-Company, had since been fleeing Indian jurisdiction over the years, after he had orchestrated the 1993 serial bombings of Mumbai in a terrorist attack in India.

An active member of Al-Qaeda in many countries, the fugitive was added to the UN Security Council Sanctions List in 2003. In addition, the UNSC committee had already updated Ibrahim’s listed addresses in August 2016 and it was clear that his sanctuary was in Karachi, Pakistan. Puri described the irony of the report's framing by arguing that the UN’s entries would place Ibrahim in the same country in which Osama bin Laden, the chief of all al-Qaeda leaders, was found and killed by US forces in 2011. Although Ibrahim is among India's most wanted terrorists, he does not have justice and is held under foreign protection, but remains in a foreign country.

#Watch: India strongly criticises UN Special Rapporteur Ben Saul over his alleged failure to address Dawood Ibrahim’s presence in Pakistan. "HR Frameworks cannot be the refuge of the perpetrators of terror & those who propagate extremism," says India's First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, Raghoo Puri. #India #UnitedNations #DawoodIbrahim #Terrorism #HumanRights #Pakistan

— Dynamite News (@DynamiteNews_) October 22, 2026

India warned that releasing unverified, wrong data under the auspices of the United Nations would cause huge damage to the international body's reputation. Independent mandate holders do not even refer to basic, well-known facts from UN Security Council-based national level security councils so as to make the global counterterrorism efforts legitimate. The Indian delegation stated that the failure of the global community to hold these special rapporteurs accountable does a lot of harm to the organization and is a step back in the way of holding state-backed criminal networks accountable.