‘Glaring inaccuracies’: New Delhi rebukes UN over ‘India-based’ tag for Dawood’s D-Company

NEW DELHI: India has pushed back against a United Nations special rapporteur’s description of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company as an “India-based” criminal group, flagging “glaring inaccuracies” in a counter-terrorism report. India warned that such factual errors, coupled with a lack of accountability for UN experts, risk undermining the credibility of the world body.Raghoo Puri, first secretary at India's Permanent Mission to the UN, raised the objections on Wednesday during a meeting of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, responding to a report by Ben Saul, the special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.“My delegation has been pointing out in other forums as well our serious concern at the unacceptable situation of the SR (Special Rapporteur) releasing reports with factual inaccuracies, while not being held accountable for them,” Puri said.He argued that the publication of reports containing factual errors…