Dawood Ibrahim, a prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai bombings, has been identified in the fresh intercepts available with the Delhi police talking to his close aide Chhota Shakeel and others in Dubai while sitting in Pakistan as late as April this year.

Rushing into damage control mode after major goof-ups in India’s list of “50 most wanted” fugitives handed over to Pakistan, an embarrassed Union home ministry said Friday the entire list was being reviewed and steps would be taken to ensure that no such mistake occurred in future.

Escalating Maoist violence has forced the government to order the redeployment of security forces engaged in anti-Naxal operations in the states to prevent exposing paramilitary forces to the well-armed rebels in their strongholds.