India objects to UN report calling Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company 'India-based'

India has objected to a UN special rapporteur describing Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company as an "India-based" criminal group, citing what it called serious factual errors. First Secretary at India's Permanent Mission to the UN, Raghoo Puri, raised the issue before the UN General Assembly's Third Committee on Wednesday (October 21) and warned that such errors harm the organisation's credibility.

Refutes UN report's description of D-Company

Puri was responding to a report by Ben Saul, the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism.

“My delegation has been pointing out in other forums as well our serious concern at the unacceptable situation of the SR (Special Rapporteur) releasing reports with factual inaccuracies, while not being held accountable for them,” Puri said.

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He objected to the report's reference to the UN Security Council listing the leader of "the India-based D-Company" in 2003 for association with Al-Qaeda.

"Read in isolation, this line paints a very different picture from the actual reality,” Puri said.

Cites UN sanctions listing and Ibrahim's whereabouts

India maintains that Ibrahim and D-Company have been wanted in connection with terror attacks since 1993. Puri said this was recorded in the UN Security Council's Al-Qaeda sanctions listing.

"This is clearly written in the narrative summary of reasons of listing under the 1267 sanctions regime,” he said.

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"Not mentioning this fact is regrettable, and such incompetence on part of special mandate holders does this organisation tremendous harm," Puri said. He added that Ibrahim had left India before the 2003 listing and was listed while operating from abroad.

Puri also referred to the UN entry stating that Ibrahim resides in the same country where Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was found and killed, a reference to Pakistan. Bin Laden was killed by US Navy SEALs in Abbottabad in 2011.

Raises bias concerns over rapporteur's report

India also raised concerns over alleged bias in Saul's report. Saul chairs international law at the University of Sydney and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.

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The report has faced scrutiny over funding claims. UN Watch alleged in a May 2026 investigation titled From Watchdogs to Ideologues that Saul received USD 150,000 from China.

"The Chinese government is his largest funder, giving USD 150,000 in 2024," the investigation said.

Rejects Pakistan's remarks on Jammu and Kashmir

Puri also rejected Pakistan's remarks on India, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, calling the allegations “pure propaganda” driven by "narrow political gains".

"It seems to have become fashionable for sponsors of terror to use human rights and the framework of counterterrorism to justify their misdeeds. Human rights framework cannot be the refuge of the perpetrators of terror and those who propagate radicalisation and extremism," he said.

"Terrorism can never be justified," Puri said, reiterating that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are an inalienable part of India.

(With agency inputs)