India, Oct. 22 -- India has strongly rejected a United Nations report describing Dawood Ibrahim-led D-Company as an "India-based" criminal group, accusing the report's author of factual inaccuracies.

Raghoo Puri, First Secretary at India's Permanent Mission to the UN, raised the objection on Wednesday during a meeting of the UN General Assembly's Third Committee. He was responding to a report by Ben Saul, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights while countering terrorism.

Puri said the description presented a misleading picture by omitting the fact that Ibrahim has been wanted in India in connection with terror attacks since 1993.

"This is clearly written in the narrative summary of reasons of listing under the 1267 sanctions regime,...