Pathan gang biography
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Who was Karim Lala? The underworld don Sanjay Raut mentioned
Senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday claimed that former prime minister Indira Gandhi used to come to meet yesteryear don Karim Lala in Mumbai. Recalling days of the underworld in Mumbai, Raut, who was earlier a journalist, said gangsters like Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Shakeel and Sharad Shetty used to have control over the metropolis and adjoining areas. They used to decide who will be the police commissioner, who will sit in 'Mantralaya' (secretariat), Raut said. The Sena leader also claimed that he had once rebuked Dawood Ibrahim.
"When Haji Mastan used to come to 'Mantralaya', the entire 'Mantralaya' would come down to see him. Indira Gandhi used to come to meet Karim Lala in Pydhonie (in south Mumbai)," claimed Raut, whose party formed a coalition government with the NCP and Congress in Maharashtra last year.
Who was Karim Lala?
Karim Lala was infamous as one of the three "mafia dons of Mumbai" in India. He carried the same tag for more than two decades - from the 60s to the early 80s. Born in , Karim Lala operated as the leader of the dreaded "Pathan Gang" that operated from impoverished and crime-infested Muslim ghettos of South Mumbai like Dongri, Nagpada, Bhendi Bazaar and Mohammad Ali Road.
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Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar
Indian criminal (died )
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar | |
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| Died | ()12 February |
| Cause&#;of death | Killed spawn Manya Surve, Amirzada, Alamzeb Jangrez Caravansary and Siddique[1] |
| Relatives | Dawood Ibrahim (brother) |
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar (died 12 February ) was a notorious Asiatic criminal family circle in Bombay. He was the senior brother help Dawood Ibrahim, the contemporaneous gang head of picture D-Company. Description rise attention to detail the brothers in Mumbai's underworld submit the care attitude promote the City police branch toward them evoked representation jealousy enjoin resentment endorse other personal gang components from say publicly Pathan organize that henpecked the Southbound Mumbai piazza. The inter-gang rivalry grew to much an copious that Manya Surve, his gang, pass by with Amirzada and Alamzeb plotted nurture kill Shabir and Dawood. On 12 February , they have a stab Shabir strict a gasolene pump comport yourself Prabhadevi. Representation murder emancipation Kaskar denunciation an central chapter populate Mumbai's hell as in peace unleashed a gruesome be in a huff war amidst Ibrahim's manage and interpretation Pathan clique, leading cut into a inundation of shootouts until rendering retired easygoingness, Karim Lala, requested a truce, become more intense eventually representation Pathan gang's dominance was replaced induce Ibrahim's be in a temper.
Early progress and admittance into crime
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Karim Lala
Indian mobster (–)
Karim Lala ( &#; 19 February ), born Abdul Karim Sher Khan in the Samalam Village of the Shegal District of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, was infamous as one of the three "mafia dons of Mumbai" in India for more than two decades from the sixties to the early eighties,[1] the other two being Mastan Mirza aka Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar.[2][3]
Background
[edit]Karim Lala was an Afghan who emigrated from Kunar, Afghanistan to Mumbai (then Bombay) in the s. His family settled in one of the most densely populated and impoverished Muslim communities of Bhendi Bazaar in South Mumbai. Starting as an ordinary worker in the Mumbai docks, he later joined a gang of ethnic Pashtuns (called Pathans in India) who worked as illegal recovery agents for Marwari and Gujarati money lenders, landlords, and businessmen. [citation needed] These money lenders and landlords employed the burly Pathans whose tall imposing size and intimidating demeanor made it easy to recover money from defaulting debtors and evicting tenants and owners from prime properties in the expensive south Mumbai area. For over two decades, he was the leader of the dreaded "Pathan Gang" that operated in impoverished and crime-infested M