Poisoned, Heart Attack, Brain Tumor: Death Reports About Dawood Ibrahim Circulated Many Times In The Past, Take A Look

This is not the first time that unconfirmed news has circulated that Dawood Ibrahim is critical or dead. If you look at previous reports, India’s most wanted criminal must have died multiple times.

Karachi: Is underworld don Dawood Ibrahim dead or alive? Social media was abuzz on Monday after unconfirmed reports emerged on social media that Dawood Ibrahim was ‘poisoned’ and admitted to a hospital. While some reports said he was dead, other reports claimed he had been hospitalized after being poisoned.

However, Chhota Shakeel, a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, denied all these reports saying that these reports were baseless and assured that “Bhai is 1000 percent fit,” according to a TOI report.

Notably, this is not the first time that unconfirmed news has circulated that Dawood Ibrahim is critical or dead. If you look at previous reports, India’s most wanted criminal must have died multiple times.

It should be noted that the life of Dawood Ibrahim, the most wanted gangster in India, has been shrouded in secrecy for the past few years. India has previously said it has irrefutable evidence that Dawood is based in Karachi.

Previous reports claimed the underworld had not contracted Covid-19 or suffered a heart attack and died, but his gang rejected such claims, claiming their boss was alive and well. The recurring cycle of rumors about his death on social media have proven to be unfounded many times.

In 2020, Pakistan unwittingly admitted that Dawood was on its territory when it submitted a list with his name on it to the global counter-terrorist financing organization Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

While the unconfirmed reports of Dawood Ibrahim’s ‘poisoning’ have certainly caused a stir on social media, here are some previous examples where the underworld don is said to have ‘died’.

In 2020, reports emerged saying that Dawood Ibrahim and his wife had contracted Covid-19, with some even claiming that he had died from the virus. However, these turned out to be false. But the infection claimed the life of Dawood Ibrahim’s cousin Siraj Kaskar in Karachi.

In 2017, there were reports that Dawood Ibrahim died of a heart attack. Other reports suggested he had a brain tumor that led to deteriorating health. However, the reports later turned out to be false. His right-hand man, Chota Shakeel, said the underworld don was in good health.

In 2026, there was another report on social media that Dawood Ibrahim had developed gangrene in his legs and that doctors may have had to amputate them. But these reports also turned out to be fake.