Listen | This is underworld don Dawood Ibrahim speaking

Over various audio clips, Dawood is heard talking to members of his sprawling underworld and terrorist network and conducting business.

IndiaToday.in  | Edited by Dev Goswami
New Delhi, November 13, 2017 | UPDATED 20:37 IST

Highlights

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    Dawood Ibrahim heard conducting business on intercepted phone calls.
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    Phone calls intercepted from as far back as 2015.
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    Top former police officials said the voice on audio clips was likely that of Dawood.

What does Dawood Ibrahim's voice sound like? You can find out for yourself. India Today TV today aired recordings of phone calls the fugitive underworld don made and received.

Over various audio clips, Dawood is heard talking to members of his sprawling underworld and terrorist network. The boss of the D-Company, as his underworld gang is famously known, can be heard conducting business.

In one of the clips, Dawood Ibrahim is heard discussing arrangements for one 'London Ustaad'. 'London Ustaad', top intelligence sources confirmed, is nothing but a code-name used for Nadeem Saifi, a Bollywood music composer wanted in connection with the 1997 sensational murder of fellow music producer Gulshan Kumar.

In another clip, Dawood is heard talking to Javed Chutani, the bridge between the D-Company and Indian bookies. Interestingly, in the same audio clip Chutani is also heard talking to Dawood's wife Mehajabin Shaikh, who demands he go to a Chanel showroom to pick up a bag that she has ordered.

Notably, top intelligence officials, aware of the intercepts, have confirmed that the phone calls had been traced to a safe-house in Karachi, where Dawood is believed to be hiding. The safehouse is believed to be operated by the Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's top spy agency.

The phone intercepts also come at a time when reports did the round of Dawood's ill-health. The underworld don was said to be a critical condition and almost on his death bed.

However, one of the audio clips, which is from this year, suggests that Dawood is hale and hearty. In a phone call from around Eid this year, Dawood can be heard cautioning the caller over fears his location may be tracked down by India's intelligence establishment.

Top police officials who have previously been involved in cases connected to Dawood Ibrahim have confirmed that the voice was likely that of the underworld don.

Former Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar, who recorded his conversations with the wanted terror mastermind in his book Dial D for Don, concluded it was Dawood himself speaking in the intercepts accessed by India Today.

ACP N.T. Kadam, another decorated officer now posted with Thane's anti-extortion cell in Maharashtra, shared the same opinion after hearing the audio clips. "The voice seems to be of Dawood Ibrahim," said Kadam, who had spent eight years with Maharashtra's anti-terror squad.

Listen | This is Dawood Ibrahim's voice