Dongri to Dubai - Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia

by S. Hussain Zaidi

  Aguiar, Aloysius Stanislaus (Judge), 277; head of encounters probe committee, 277; and his report, 277

  Al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 306

  Al Qaeda, 300, 303, 305-307, 340-42, 353, 354, 358; attacks in United States, 300; Dawood’s contacts with, 303, 306, 307, 354

  Alam, Mushir, 139-144; a Bollywood mogul, 139; day-light abduction of, 139-140; demand of pacchis lakh made, 141; ransom paid, 141, released, 141

  Alamzeb, 74, 75, 79, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 109, 121, 125, 139, 141, 142, 144, 145, 149, 153, 154, 158, 167; in Pathan syndicate, 75, 102, violated holy pact, 109; involvement in the murder of Sabir, 121, 125, 142; involvement in abduction of Mushir, 139-141; and released Mushir, 141; police raid on his office, 144; and arrest of father Jangrez Khan, 144-145; arrested, 145; hired Kunju for Rajan Nair’s killing, 154

  Amirzada, 74, 75, 79, 81, 102, 103, 106, 107, 109, 120, 121, 125, 126, 139, 141, 142, 144-145, 149-154, 158, 160, 167; a Pathan gangster, 75, 102, 106; Natiq’s humiliation in this office, 81; at Mastans, meeting, 103-104; friendship with Nanda, 120; and keep tabs on Sabir’s movements, 120; involved in Sabir’s killing, 120-122, 125, 142; arrested, 126; role in Mushir’s abduction, 141; arrested in Mushir’s abduction case, 145; Dawood’s plan to shoot him in the court, 149-151; murdered, 151, 153, 154, 160; role of Bada Rajan in killing of, 158, 160

  Amolik, Emmanuel, 194-195

  Anees Bhai (Anees Ibrahim Kaskar), xv, 50, 53, 102, 125, 187, 223, 227, 253-258, 273, 303, 308, 309, 319-322, 332-334, 342, 343, 345, 347; Dawood’s brother, 102; joined Dawood in Dubai, 187; dislike for Shakeel, 253; collaboration with Abu Salem, , 254, 256-258, 273, 308-309; Pakistani passports to, 303; parted ways with Salem, 308-309; gutkha making deal with Joshi, 320; launched Fire brand gutkha in Pakistan, 319-320; red corner notice against, 321; apparent closeness with Nagma, 322; arrested in Dubai, 342

  Angadias, 66

  Ali Bhai (Ali Abdulla Antulay), 53, 151, 168, 187

  Ayubi, Sayyed Sultan, 66-67; as Mr Bombay, 67; in Dawood’s gang, 66, 67

  Baashu Dada (Ahmed Khan), xii, xxi, 41-46, 51, 55-64, 66, 67, 75, 79-80, 84, 107, 117, 124, 136, 218, 370; push-up challenge to Khalid and Raheem, 42-43; Teli Mohalla headquarters of, 43, 55; top smugglers of his time, 43; face raids on, 43; early days of, 43-44; working with Rahim Bhai, 45-46; baithaks of, 55; humiliated Sabir, 60-61; Dawood vowed to finish him, 60; Dawood’s attack on, 62-64; destruction of his akhada, 63-64; detention under NSA, 64; end to the reign of, 64

  Baatla, Saeed, 85-86; Dawood’s attack on, 86-87; jailed, 87

  Baba Bahauddin dargah, 250

  Babri Masjid demolition, xix, xx, 225-227, 241, 251, 340; communal riots after, 226, 227, 241, 251

  Babu Reshim (Babu Gopal Reshim), 93-95, 137, 196-203, 206; leader of Mazagon docks’ canteen workers, 94, 95; B.R.A. Company’s don, 95, 137; molested a Kanjari girl, 197-198; slapped by Vijay Utekar, 197; Vijay Utekar’s vow to kill, 197; attacked, 198; imprisoned at the Jacob Circle lock-up, 198-199; killed by Vijay Utekar in lock-up, 197-198, 202

  Bada Rajan (Rajan Nair), 126, 137, 146-149, 153-157, 159; a typewriter thief, 146-149; creation of Golden Gang, 147; meeting with Dawood, 146-147; killed, 156, 157

  Bagwan, Ishaq, 131-133, 142-144, 151-152, 276, 364, 370; killed Manya, 133, 276; president’s police medal awarded to, 133; investigation of Mushir kidnapping, 143; arrested Pardesi, 152

  Bakhiya, Sukur Narayan, 19, 27, 45, 368; biggest smuggler in Gujarat, 19; coordination with Mastan, 19

  Bal Thackeray, 116, 226, 231, 241, 268, 271, 285, 286; calling Dawood a ‘deshdroshi’, 231; Rajan’s challenge to, 241; and murder of his manasputra Jayant Jadhav, 286

  Bedi, Monica, 331-333, 345-346, Abu Salem’s paramour, 331; in Lisbon, 332-333; arrested, 333, 345; extradited to India, 346

  Bharat Shah murder case, 283-284, 286, 288, 310

  Bin Laden, Osama, 339, 342, 348, 353, 358-360; and Ibrahim’s syndicate, 306, 307, 342, 348; rank in Forbes list, 353; hiding place of, 358; killing of, 359-361

  Boucher, Richard, 348-352; transcript of the discussion with, 349-352

  Bout, Viktor, 180, 186

  BRA Company, 95, 137, 191, 196, 203; formation of, 95; members of, 95, 137

  Bukhari, Maulana Zia-ud-din, 56, 57, 61

  Bush, George, 305, 340, 342, 354

  Buwa, Dilip, 210-212

  Carnac Bunder robbery, 67-69

  Chhota Rajan (Rajendra Nikhalje,), xv, xvi, xx, 100, 137, 148, 157-161, 168, 187, 189, 198-199, 205, 215-216, 224, 228, 230, 231, 241, 250, 280, 289, 294, 295, 326, 327, 332, 368; a black marketer, 157; joined Bada Rajan gang, 158; hunt for Kunju, 258; joined Dawood’s gang, 160; killed Kunju, 160; as a manager in D Company, 160, 215-218; support to Vijay, 199; role in Ashok Joshi’s killing, 205; and ill-feelings in gang for, 243; escape from Dubai, 245-246, 248; moved to Kuala Lumpur, 250; in Southeast Asian countries, 289-290; in Bangkok, 290-291; Shakeel’s plan to kill, 291-292; assault on, 292-295; escape from, 296; proposal for extradition from Bangkok, 296

  Chhota Shakeel, xvi, 138, 187, 188, 205, 217-220, 224, 228, 242-244, 248, 250-255, 257, 263, 280, 283, 288, 289-295, 303, 308-316, 344, 361; Dawood’s Man Friday, xxi; joined Dawood in Dubai, 188; differences with Chhota Rajan, 243; new CEO of D-Gang, 250-254; cultivating young Muslim boys as sharpshooters, 251-253; role in the killing Ramdas Nayak, 252; ordered killing of Bharat Shah, 285-287; planned to kill Rajan in Bangkok, 291; relocated in Pakistan, 303-304; produced Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, 308-317; ordered attack on Rakesh Roshan, 315; Pakistani citizenship to, 344; as Haji Mohammad in Pakistan, 344; set up base in Jeddah, 361

  Congress House, 118-121; disintegration in(to) a whorehouse, 118

  Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act (COFEPOSA), 90, 108, 175

  Dalit-Muslim Suraksha Mahasangh (DMSM), 117

  Daruwalli, Jenabai, 102, 116, 136

  Dawood Ibrahim (Dawood Hasan Ibrahim Kaskar), a global terrorist, 3, 325, 369-344, 348, 355; interview in Indian Express, xvii-xxi; life in Karachi, 4-5; early life of, 50-52; first crime of, 52; involvement in extortion, 54; attack on Baashu Dada, 62-63; first bank robbery by, 67-69; and severe reprisal by father, 71; fight against the Pathans, 84-87; dominance in the Bombay mafia, 87; Kachra Peti line method of smuggling of, 107-108, 134; and gang with Sabir, 102, 109, 110, 123, 131; arrested under COFEPOSA, 108, 175; Pathans’ planning against, 110; in love with Sujata Kaur, 111-113; and wife Mehjabeen, 113, 171, 172, 174, 324; escape to Dubai, 169, 176; deadly enemies of, 204; avenged Raje’s killing, 205; expansion of gang in Dubai, 185-186, 215-216; involvement in Bombay blasts, 228, 230-232; branded a traitor, xxi, 230, 233; hate mails to, 233; offer to surrender, 234; moved to Karachi, xvi, 249; properties in Pakistan, 6; new identity in Pakistan, 4, 7, 244, 325, 344; and his White House, 3, 5, 188, 193, 233, 241, 242, 301; pawn in the ISI’s hands, 232, 241, 249; send to safer hideout by ISI, 302-303, 361-362; Newsline article on, 304; decision in Joshi-Dhariwal dispute, 319-321; red corner notice against, 321; daughter’s wedding and walimah ceremony for, 325; and global confluence of spies at, 325-326; Pakistani citizenship to, 344; as a Significant Foreign Narcotics Trafficker, 340; rank in Forbes List, 353; in film piracy, 356

  Desai, Morarji, 22

  Dhariwal, Rasiklal Manikchand, 319-321; business battle with Jagdish Joshi, 319-321

  Dolas, Maya, 210, 212-213

  Doval, Ajit, 328-329

  Dubey, Kundan, 93

  East West Center of Honolulu, 349; cultural exchange programme of, 349

  Encounters, 275-276; controversies on, 194; Aguiar Committee report on, 278

  Feroz Konkani (Feroz Sarguroh), 251-253; youngest killing machine, 252; killed MLA Ramdas Nayak, 252-253; arrested, 252

  Forbes magazine’s World’s Most Powerful People list, 353

  Gandhi, Indira, 88-90,
349

  Gawli, Arun (Arun Gulab Ahir), xv, xvi, xx, 90, 91, 93-95, 137, 191, 197, 199, 201, 203-207, 212, 218, 224, 231, 263, 280, 286, 337; arrested under NSA, 90, 95; role in murder of Parasnath Pandey, 92; Dawood’s biggest detractor, 93; family and early life of, 94; marriage to Zubeida, 95; and role in murder of Satish Raje, 204-205; declared war against Dawood, 205; avenging the murder of Papa Gawli, 207-208; killed Ibrahim Parkar, 207; a member of the legislative assembly, 337

  Gawli, Papa, 206-207; murdered, 206-207

  Ghai, Subhash, 259, 263, 264; underworld threats to, 259, 263, 264

  Gujral, Inder Kumar, 266

  Gutkha smuggling, 318-319

  Guzmán, Joaquin, 353, 354, 363; drug trafficker of Mexico, 353, 354; rank in Forbes list of most powerful, 353-354; similarities with Dawood, 354

  Haddi, Salim, 259: Salem’s sharpshooter, 259

  Haji Mastan (Mastan Haider Mirza), xii, xxi, 14-20, 26-33, 38-39, 45-47, 65-67, 69, 75, 90-91, 96-107, 109, 114-117, 124, 125, 166, 167, 174, 204, 218, 227, 238, 364, 368; at Bombay dock as a coolie, 15-16; rapport with Shaikh Mohammed Al Ghalib, 15-19; triumph over Sher Khan Pathan, 16-17; rise as a smuggler, 17-19; alliance with Varda Bhai, 28-30; detention under MISA and COFEPOSA, 90; gave supari for Yusuf Patel, 96, 97; Baitul Suroor bungalow of, 101; implemented mafia peace pact, 104; in movie production, 115; detention under NSA, 116; married to Sona, 115, 238; retired and reformed, 91, 117

  Haldankar, Shailesh, 207, 220, 224; murder of, 220

  Igwe, Rajesh 259: sharpshooter in Salem’s gang, 259

  Inter Services Intelligence’s (ISI), 7, 227, 230, 232, 241, 249, 302, 303, 325, 340-343, 353, 355, 360-363; tehreeke-inteqaam operation of, 227; ‘prick and bleed’ operations of, 227, 232; protection to Dawood in Pakistan, 302, 343, 360-363

  Iqbal Mirchi, 137, 283, 345

  Iyer, M.P., 99; a crime reporter, 99; murdered, 99-100

  Javed Fawda, 269-270, 276, 277; controversial encounter of, 269-270, 276, 277

  Jethmalani, Ram, 90, 234

  JJ hospital shootout, 215-225

  Johnny gang, 10

  Joshi, Jagdish, 319-321; and Dhariwal dispute, 319-321; charged under the MCOCA, 321; links with underworld, 322

  Joshi Manohar, 267, 268

  Joshi, Ashok, 203, 205, 206, 212; murdered by Chhota Rajan, 205-206

  Kamlakar, Dhananjay, 326-328

  Kanjarwada incidence, 196-197

  Karim Lala (Abdul Karim Khan), xxi, 19, 33-40, 45, 47, 49, 73-75, 90-91, 96, 98, 99, 102, 104, 116, 117, 124, 125, 153, 163, 166, 174, 364, 368; a moneylender, 35; reputation as a mediator, 35-37; gambling den of, 35-36; alliance with Haji Mastan, 38-40; detention during Emergency, 90; detention under NSA, 116; reformed, 117

  Kaskar, Ibrahim, 39, 45, 47-53, 57, 58, 61, 62, 69, 70, 73, 74, 76, 77, 102, 104, 114, 124, 125; revered by Karim Lala, 39, 45; career as a head constable, 47-48; birth of second son to, 49; family of, 47, 50-51; running errands for Baashu, 51; humiliation by Baashu, 59-61; baithak of, 69; respect in police circles, 69; brutal punishment to Dawood and Sabir, 70-71

  Kaskar, Iqbal, 50, 334-338; Dawood’s brother, 334; clean record of, 334; returned to India, 336; booked under MCOCA, 337; and released, 338; changed his name, 338; filed nominations as independent candidate, 338

  Kaskar, Sabir, 48, 51, 53, 59-62, 69-71, 82, 91, 102-104, 109, 110, 119-126, 130, 131, 134, 136, 142, 148, 167, 169, 175, 334, 363; humiliated by Baashu, 60, 61; bank robbery with Dawood, 69-70; in gang with Dawood, 102, 109, 110, 123, 131; friendship with Chitra, 119-121; and wife Shahnaaz, 119, 121; slaying of, 122, 142; final rites of, 125

  Katdhare, Rajendra, 192-195; encounter of Rama Naik, 192; controversy over, 192-193

  Khalid Pehelwan, 41-43, 64, 84-86, 106, 107, 109, 110, 123, 125, 134-138, 186; Baashu’s right-hand man, 84; offered services to Dawood, 85; killing of Ayub Lala, 86; and Dawood, rift between, 135-137; retired from Mafia, 137

  Khan, Ayub Lala, 79-80, 85, 86, 98-99; role in Natiq’s killing, 81-82; killed, 86

  Khan, Hamid, 74

  Khan, Jangrez, 96, 144, 145

  Kaliya (Mehmood Khan), 194; encounter of, 194

  Khan, Mumtaz, 50, 170-171

  Khan, Nanhe, 9, 10, 12

  Khan, Samad, 102, 106, 162-169, 175; a Pathan gangsters, 102, 106; relations with Shilpa Zhaveri, 162, 163, 168; proclamation of uncle Karim Lala for, 163-164, 167; killings of Jains in hotel, 164-165; in Arthur Road Jail, 165-166; friendship with Dawood, 167; assaulted Noora, 168; cold-blooded murder by Dawood , 168-169

  Khan, Shahrukh, 310, 314, 315

  Kukreja, Omprakash, xvi, 259-260; murder of, 260, 262, 263; first casualty of the inter-gang rivalry, 260

  Kumar, Dilip, 11, 112, 115, 139, 140, 142, 143; Mastan’s photographs with, 115; registered Mushir’s abduction report, 142; meeting to Julio Ribeiro, 143

  Kumar, Gulshan, xvi, xx, 263-270, 272, 277, 345, 346; T-Series music baron, xvi, 264; rise of, 263-264; day-light murder of, xvi, xx, 265-266, 267

  Kunju, Abdul, 147-148, 153-155, 157-161, 166, 204; plan to kill Rajan Nair, 154; surrendered, 158; Chhota Rajan’s attacks on, 159, 160; killed, 161

  Likha, Ranbeer, 72-78, 82, 83; meeting with Ibrahim Bhai, 73-74; support to Dawood, 83.

  Lokhandwala shootout, 209-214

  Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous People’s Act, 277

  Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA), 88-90, 94

  Makhdoom Shah dargah, 249

  Malhotra, Subhash, 267-269, 276, 285, 326-328

  Malhotra, Vicky, 326-328

  Mandakini, 236-240; in Raj Kapoor’s films, 236-237; as Dawood Ibrahim’s moll, 238; marriage to Dr Kagyur Rinpoche, 240; a practising Buddhist, 240

  Manish Lala, 137, 187, 224, 230

  Maria, Rakesh, 229, 271, 355-357, 370; Anti-Terrorism Squad chief, 355, 370; views on Dawood’s empire, 355-357

  Memon, Tiger, 227-231, 234, 235, 238, 255, 302, 304, 344, 357; role in Bombay serial blasts, 227-228, 304, 357; logistical support of Dawood to, 228, 234; escape from India, 229, 230; surrendered, 235; Pakistani citizenship to, 344

  Mendonca, Ronald Hyacinth, 269, 270, 277-280, 285; bullet for bullet plans for the underworld, 279-281

  Miandad, Javed, 7, 323, 324; most hated in India, 323; son’s wedding to Dawood’s daughter, 324-326

  Minara Masjid incident, 97-98

  Mombassa incidents, 342-343

  Momin, Aslam, 335-337

  Mumbai (Bombay), xii, xiii, xv, xix, 26/11 terrorist attack, 4 ; Mafia, xv, xvi, 8, 9, 11, 13-15, 17-20, 22-25, 28, 30, 32-36, 43-45, 47, 48, 51, 56, 57, 64, 65-67, 72, 74-75, 83-87, 90, 93, 97-100, 102-104, 107, 108-109, 110, 115, 117-120, 122-123, 128, 135, 137,139-140, 142, 146, 147, 149, 152, 155, 157, 162, 163, 169, 174-176, 179, 182, 185-87, 191,194, 197, 203-4, 206, 283, 366, 368, 370; communal riots of 1984, 116, 226; 228-9, 350, first encounter in, 127, 128; and gang wars, 204-206; effects of liberalisation on, 257; serial blasts in, xv, xviii, 4, 228-230, 234, 228, 238, 243, 254, 271, 304, 339, 341, 343, 344, 347, 357; spate of killings in, 263; Stock Exchange bombings, 306, 307, 340

  Munde, Gopinath, 267-269

  Munna Jhingada, 291-293, 295; Pakistani citizenship to, 292; attacked Rajan in Bangkok, 292-293; arrested, 295

  Musharraf, Parvez, 302-303, 343, 351, 352; relation with Dawood, 303

  Nagma, 322

  Naik, Ashwin, xv, xvi, xx

  Naik, Rama, 90, 93-95, 137, 189, 191-193, 201, 203, 206; alliance to Varda bhai, 94; dispute with Sharad Anna, 189-191; mystery over the killing of, 192-193

  Narasimha, P.V., XV, 262, 283

  National Security Act (NSA), 64, 90, 95, 116, 148

  Natiq, Mohammad Iqbal, 74-75, 78-83; publisher of Raazdaar, 74-75; and articles against the Pathans in, 82; Dawood’s support to, 80;
Pathan’s threats to, 81; murder of, 81-82, 84, 85

  Natwarlal Desai murder case, 268

  Noora (Nurool Haq), 50, 167-169, 255, 334, 363; Samad’s assault on, 168; succumbed to cancer, 334

  Operation Neptune Spear, 359-361

  pagdi system, 36, 37

  Pandey, Parasnath, 92-95; a matka don, 92-93; killing of, 92, 94, 95

  Pardesi, David Devasayan, 149-153, 346; killed Amirzada in court, 149; death of, 152

  Parkar, Haseena, 329, 370

  Parkar, Ibrahim, 207, 208, 217, 218, 370; murdered, 207, 218; victim of gang war, 207

  Patel, Yusuf, 32, 90, 91, 96-99; Mastan’s acolyte, 32; attack on, 98

  Pathan mafia, 73-74, 85-87, 96-100, 153, 364

  Patnaik, Biju, 88

  Phukprayoon, Kriekpong, 295-296

  Prasad, K. L., 268-270

  Qavi, M. A., 210-213

  Rai, Rajiv, 259, 263, 264

  Raje, Satish, 204-205; Dawood’s sharpshooter, 204; killed by Gawli, 204-205

  Ramamurthy, S., 209, 210, 214

  Rao, Narasimha, 257, 262, 283; opened up India’s economy, 257, 283

  Rashid, Sheikh, 182, 184

  Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), 88-90, 245, 246, 302, 304, 325, 342; creation of, 88; role of, 88-89; failure of, 89-90

  Ribeiro, Julio, 116, 131, 143, 275, 276; a special squad to hunt down Manya, 131, 133; encounters during reign of, 275, 276

  Rizvi, Nazeem, 309-316; frontman of Shakeel, 309; role in making of Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, 308-317; arrested under MCOCA, 316

  Roshan, Rakesh, 315; attack on, 315

  Sada Mama (Sada Pawle), 203, 204, 276-278

  Safalika, Chandrashekhar, 154-156; murdered Bada Rajan in the court, 154; arrested, 156

  Saifi, Nadeem, xx, 270, 272, 273, 345; key accused in Gulshan Kumar’s killing, 272, 277; government efforts for extradition of, 345

  Sarmalkar, Mohan, 93

  Sautya (Sunil Sawant), 137, 187, 205, 218-221, 224, 242, 243, 250; in hit squad to kill Ashok Joshi, 205; role in JJ Hospital shootout, 220-224

  Sawant, Pradeep, 285-288, 369