Dilipsinh Gatorsinh Vaghela was posted as a sub-inspector in the local intelligence bureau (LIB) of Jamnagar, a district on Gujarat’s west coast from where locals routinely went “by boat to Dubai for menial jobs” until they were deported. Such people were mostly from Salaya, Bedi, Okha, and Veraval. Vaghela’s job, along with that of other security agencies, was to interrogate these deportees for any suspicious activity. Sometime in June 1993, he says, “We stumbled upon a seaman from Kutch who was booked under the COFEPOSA (Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974) and was wanted by the customs department.” “That man would turn out to be key to the case,” says Vaghela, who later became the complainant in the July 15, 1993 FIR that named Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar for the first time in connection with the Mumbai bombings.…