Dawood targeting CBI's Delhi office to destroy 2G documents?

The Central Bureau of Investigation has claimed that crime boss Dawood Ibrahim's gang – the so-called D-company - is planning to target the CBI headquarters in New Delhi to try and destroy all documents the agency has gathered relating to the 2G spectrum scam. 

Mumbai-based CBI officials have passed on this information to the investigators handling the case, according to several reports citing unnamed CBI sources. 

The country's premier investigating agency has meanwhile strengthened security measures at its headquarters in Delhi, where the 2G papers are housed. The CBI has also informed the MHA and NIA of the impending threat to the case. 

The reports say that about three weeks ago the CBI was informed that Ibrahim's gang might target the agency's headquarters. The information was passed on to officials at the CBI's Mumbai branch a few days ago – Mumbai is well known to be the main operating base of D-Company in India.

Intelligence agencies suspect Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa to have links with Ibrahim's gang. Balwa was arrested by the CBI in connection to the 2G scam on 8 February and is currently in judicial custody.

However, most observers dismiss this as typical administrative paranoia at best; and at worst an attempt by the agency to distract people from the fact that despite preparing to file a chargesheet under the Supreme Court's directions, it has actually completed only about 10 per cent of its probe into the scam (as an official connected with the investigations revealed).

''This sounds ridiculous,'' said a senior journalist. ''It is one thing for terrorists to indiscriminately hit at soft targets and innocent citizens; but it is hard to imagine the D-Company launching a commando-style attack on the CBI headquarters just to destroy certain papers.''