Sharjah assassination plot against Dawood

The Sharjah assassination plot against Dawood was the most daring and ambitious act of revenge ever conceived by a woman in the annals of the Mumbai underworld. It was the brainchild of Sapna, the widow of the slain gangster Mehmood Khan, who, in the early 1990s, resolved to kill the mafia don Dawood Ibrahim in full public view, during an India–Pakistan cricket match at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium. The plot was remarkable not only for its audacity but for its meticulous planning, its reliance on a woman's patient observation, and its ultimate, catastrophic failure. Betrayed from within, the plan never came to fruition; instead, it sealed Sapna's fate, leading to her savage murder at the hands of Dawood's men, an event that demonstrated the absolute, necropolitical power of the mafia to decide who lives and who dies.