NEW DELHI, April 14: A man who claims to have served Dawood Ibrahim’s family in Pakistan as cook has told Indian police that the fugitive underworld chief is lodged in Karachi, Press Trust of India said on Friday.

It said Mohammed Jabreel Khan, cook of Dawood’s brother Anees Ibrahim, was arrested this week at the Delhi airport when he returned from Karachi.

Mr Khan, whose confessional statement was recorded before a magistrate on Thursday night, told investigators that Mr Dawood was living in Karachi and gave his address as 13, Defence Housing Authority, Clifton, PTI said.

(In Islamabad, an interior ministry source told Dawn that no such information had been conveyed to the Pakistani government by the Indian government so far. “We will be in a position to offer a comment after an intimation is received,” the source said).