New Delhi, May 23: A criminal nexus between ISI, Lashker-e-Toiba and Dawood Ibrahim gang, which authorities suspect was instrumental in the killing of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya, has come to notice.
During investigations into the case of Pandya and the underworld don deported from Dubai recently, security agencies have reportedly come across information that the alleged assassins of Pandya were among a batch of terrorist recruits sent to Pakistan in mid-2002 with the assistance of Sharief Khan alias Chota Dawood and his gang members, sources said.
The recruits were allegedly taken to another country where they were provided Pakistani passport by representatives of D-Company for their onward journey to Karachi, the sources said and added that they were trained by LeT before their clandestine return to the country in January 2003.
The assassins of Pandya were also tasked to attack the oil installations and other important buildings in Gujarat with the logistics of funds, weapons and explosives being entrusted to Chota Dawood and other members of D-Company.
The sources said that the "cosy nexus" had come to light after the statement of Anil Parab, a Dubai-based D-Company gangster, who was deported here late last month.

He had told the investigators that the ISI had also placed groups of Kashmiri boys under Anees Ibrahim, brother of Dawood for "familarisation" with the D-company infrastructure in India, the sources said. In return Dawood takes cut from the narcotic and gun running operations worldwide from Pakistan's ISI, they said. Bureau Report