TopicMumbai Underworld

Topic: Mumbai Underworld

Haji Mastan, Gawli to Riyaz Bhati, Maharashtra politics has been linked to underworld for 30 yrs

Manasi Phadke - 12 November, 2021

Many politicians were accused of links — from Indira Gandhi meeting Haji Mastan & Karim Lala, to Bal Thackeray backing Arun Gawli, and various charges against Sharad Pawar.

Wife of ‘Dawood aide’ claims husband forced her into sex work, names sportspersons & politicians

Manasi Phadke - 11 November, 2021

Rehnuma is the wife of Riyaz Bhati, a suspected Dawood Ibrahim aide who faces multiple cases, including alleged extortion, forgery and land-grabbing.

‘Bomb vs hydrogen bomb’: Fadnavis links Nawab Malik to underworld, minister says will retaliate

Manasi Phadke - 9 November, 2021

BJP’s Fadnavis alleges NCP minister Nawab Malik bought land for a pittance from a 1993 Mumbai blasts convict and Dawood’s sister’s right-hand man. Malik says purchase was legal.

Ravi Pujari — English-speaking don, ‘Preity Zinta fan’ in Mumbai Police custody after 25 yrs

Manasi Phadke - 1 March, 2021

Gangster Ravi Pujari was brought back to India over 25 years after he fled. He was intercepted at a barber’s shop at Dakar in Senegal in 2019. There are 49 cases registered against him.

Mumbai gangster watched the film Satya 18 times to study how to become a real-life villain

Puja Changoiwala - 30 August, 2020

Puja Changoiwala’s book 'Gangster on the Run' is about criminal-turned-marathon runner Rahul Jadhav, whose pseudonym ‘Bhiku’ was inspired by the 1998 film Satya.

Param Bir Singh — ‘encounter specialist’ IPS officer & Mumbai top cop caught in Sena-NCP tiff

Manasi Phadke - 9 July, 2020

Seemingly stuck in the Sena-NCP tug of war in Maharashtra, Param Bir Singh is a celebrated IPS officer but one who has also courted multiple controversies.

How Karnataka Police nabbed Ravi Pujari, ‘Hindu don’ facing 200 cases, in Senegal

Rohini Swamy - 24 February, 2020

Karnataka Police tracked Pujari, the gangster evading arrest for 20 years, to Dakar in Senegal in 2019 and brought him to India after a year-long extradition process.

Why the police class of 1983 was feared by Mumbai’s underworld

S. Hussain Zaidi - 6 November, 2019

In the late 1980s, there was only one destination of choice for ambitious, young policemen: Mumbai. And 90 cadets from the infamous Nashik 1983 batch was posted there.

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‘Historic hurt’ is a modern phrase. Muslims were integral to South Indian gods

Anirudh Kanisetti - 30 June, 2022

The legends of Vavar and other South Indian gods venerated by both Hindus and Muslims show that the Deccan's religious history in the region is far more complex.