Cong demands answers over Mumbai visit of Dawood's wife

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday demanded answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh over the reported Mumbai visit of Dawood Ibrahim's wife and asked why no action was taken against her by the government.

Underworld don Dawood's wife Mehajabin Shaikh had visited Mumbai to meet her father last year, police officials had said on Friday, quoting the fugitive gangster's brother Iqbal Kaskar, who has been held by the Thane police in an extortion case.

Congress communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala said it was unfortunate that Dawood's wife came to meet her father in Mumbai in 2016 and the Modi government and its agencies "kept sleeping".

"This is such a shocking revelation made by the Thane police that the Prime Minister, Home Minister and Defence Minister should answer," he said. Surjewala questioned why the wife of the terrorist was not arrested and why no action was taken against her.

"Congress demands that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh apprise the nation about the national security failure and circumstances in which the wife of a dreaded terrorist entered and left India with complete ease, without being questioned or detained.