New York, Oct. 22 -- India on Wednesday (local time) strongly hit out at the UN rapporteurs for bias in a counter-terror report and called for high standards of impartiality.

UN rapporteur Ben Saul in his report had described Dawood Ibrahim as the leader of the "India-based" D-Company criminal gang with terrorist ties.

Taking umbrage at this, Indian diplomat Raghoo Puri told the UN Assembly, "We express serious concern at the unacceptable situation of the SR releasing reports with factual inaccuracies, while not being held accountable for them. This presents Member States with a fait accompli, which is unfortunate for this organization that is facing challenges of legitimacy."

Puri underlined that Dawood was a wanted criminal and was b...