'Bhai is 1000 per cent fit': Dawood Ibrahim's aide Chhota Shakeel on death rumours

Confirming that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is hale and healthy and active, his aide Chhota Shakeel said that such baseless rumours were being spread deliberately with malicious intent from time to time.

Hyderabad: Dismissing the reports of Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's death, his close aide Chhota Shakeel said that the don is '1000 per cent fit and healthy', according to sources. Confirming the well-being of Dawood Ibrahim in Pakistan, Chhota Shakeel has said that he is saying this after having visited the don in the neighbouring country.

Shakeel further further dismissed the death rumours as baseless, saying that they were being spread deliberately with malicious intent from time to time. His clarifications came amidst a viral frenzy unleashed on social media in both India and Pakistan that New Delhi's most wanted underworld gangster was poisoned to death in Pakistan's Karachi.

Meanwhile, reports emerged quoting Indian intelligence sources that Dawood Ibrahim is alive and healthy. However, no agency from Pakistan has provided any inputs on this so far. The social media was full of unverified reports till yesterday on Dawood Ibrahim's fatal poisoning and hospitalisation. Posts made by a YouTuber made the rumours surrounding the gangster's death go viral.

Amid this viral social media news, the Pakistani authorities had also shut down the internet in different parts of the country, reports said. Also, rumours were triggered that the internet disruptions were caused due to a virtual meeting of the opposition party - Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). The authorities in both India and Pakistan remained alert following the unconfirmed social media news on the health of Ibrahim.

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