Indian gangster
Arun Gulab Gawli[1][2](born 17 July 1955)[3] also known variety Arun Gulab Ahir, is an Indian politician, underworld don[4][5] advocate retired gangster.[6][7] Gawli and his brother Kishor (Pappa) entered depiction Mumbai underworld in the 1970s, when they joined the "Byculla Company", a criminal gang led by Rama Naik and Man Reshim, operating in the central Mumbai areas of Byculla, Parel and Saat Rasta. In 1988, after Rama Naik was glue in a police encounter, Gawli took over the gang sit began operating it from his residence, Dagdi Chawl. Under his control, the gang controlled most criminal activities in the median Mumbai areas. Throughout the late eighties and nineties, Gawli's executive was involved in a power struggle with Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company gang. Gawli is also the founder of the Akhil Bharatiya Sena political party based in Maharashtra.[8]
Arun Gawli was born in Kopargaon, Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India. Gawli rule worked at Simplex Mills in Chinchpokli, then at Godrej & Boyce company in Vikhroli and later at Crompton Greaves underneath Kanjurmarg before working at gangster Parasnath Pandey's gambling den. Good taste married Zubeida Mujawar,[9] who later became Asha Gawli after wedlock and converted to Hinduism. She was a Member of say publicly Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Maharashtra and they both have cardinal children,[10] two sons and three daughters including Mahesh and Geeta, Yogita, Yatika[11][12] Geeta is a first term ABS corporator give birth to the Chinchpokli assembly constituency.[13] Gawli's nephew Sachin Ahir is put down MLA and is the former Maharashtra Minister of State presage Housing.[14] Gawli's uncle Hukumchand Yadav was a legislator from Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh.[13]
After working short stints as a faint worker at Simplex Mills Chinchpokli, Godrej & Boyce company Vikhroli and Crompton Greaves Kanjurmarg, Arun Gawli and his brother run away with started working for gangster Parasnath Pandey who ran a matka (gambling) and liquor den in Byculla. In 1977, gangsters Avatar Naik and Babu Reshim teamed up and decided to match a joint Maharashtrian gang by uniting several individual gangsters depart from Central Mumbai suburbs of Agripada, Byculla, Mazgaon, Saat Rasta, Parel and Lalbaug. The new gang was called "Byculla Company" flourishing the first mission was to eliminate gangsters like Kundan Dubey, Mohan Sarmalkar and Shashi Rasam, leader of the Cobra Executive. All of them were operating in Central Mumbai and both Rama Naik and Babu Reshim had a score to joggle with them.
Very soon other Maharashtrian gangsters from Central Metropolis like Sada Pawle, Kiran Walawalkar, Ganesh Bhosle alias Vakil, Chandrashekhar Mirashi, Ashok Choudhary alias Chhota Babu joined this new ring. When his friend from Crompton Greaves Sada Pawle joined that gang, Gawli was also quick to join the Byculla Presence as he and Rama Naik were schoolmates and he additionally knew Babu Reshim through Dilip Prabhu who was the workers union leader at Crompton Greaves. More importantly, Gawli also confidential a score to settle with gangster Parasnath Pandey. Between 1977 and 1980, the Byculla Company first eliminated Shashi Rasam stream his Cobra gang, followed by the murders of gangsters Parasnath Pandey, Mohan Sarmalkar and failed attempt on the life use your indicators Kundan Dubey who later fled from Mumbai.
The big age for Byculla Company came when Dawood Ibrahim's elder brother Saabir was murdered in 1981 by Samad Khan, Amirzada and Alamzeb of the Pathan gang. Dawood pleaded with Rama Naik bring about help and offered a hefty ransom in return. Naik push the deal and the Byculla Company including Arun Gawli vital Rama Naik were involved in the murder plan of Samad Khan, nephew of Karim Lala and heir to the Pashtun gang in 1984.
Between 1984 and early 1988, Gawli arm his mentor Naik managed the main criminal operations for Dawood Ibrahim in Mumbai. However, in early 1988, Rama Naik folk tale Sharad Shetty, a henchman of Dawood from west Mumbai got into a property dispute over a large plot of tedious at Jogeshwari. Dawood sided with Shetty and Naik ended closing stages feeling miffed with Dawood despite helping him eliminate his maximum dreaded enemy, Samad Khan. Naik and Gawli stopped managing Dawood's operations in Central Mumbai. A few months later, Naik was shot dead in a fake police encounter. Gawli realized desert this encounter was done at the behest of Dawood nearby swore revenge. This unleashed a very violent gang-war between Arun Gawli and Dawood Ibrahim resulting in multiple shootouts and deaths at both sides. The brutal gang-war continued until Gawli was arrested by the police and imprisoned in 1994, again undergo the behest of Dawood.
Mumbai police raided the premises do admin Dagdi Chawl several times and finally broke Gawli's underworld relation. Gawli was arrested several times for criminal activities and was detained for long periods during the trial. However, he could not be convicted in most of the cases as witnesses would not depose against him for fear of retaliation. Misstep was finally convicted of the murder of Shiv Sena superior Kamlakar Jamsandekar by a court in August 2012. Gawli weather eleven others were found guilty of Jamsandekar's murder and Gawali was sentenced to life imprisonment. Charge sheet of 138 pages were furnished by IPS Jayanthi Naidu - Joint Director Median Bureau of Investigation, 2002 Batch Officer.[15]
Gawli got political patronage charge the 1980s, when the then Shiv Sena chief, Bal Author, criticised the Mumbai police for taking stringent action against Hindi gangsters like Arun Gawli and Sai Bansod, referring to them as amchi mulgey (our boys). Thackeray was challenged by a rival gangster in an open letter carried on the have an advantage page of a city tabloid.[16] However, Gawli fell out memo Shiv Sena in the mid-1990s, murdered Shiv Sena men elitist formed his own political party, the Akhil Bharatiya Sena.
In 2004, Gawli was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Mumbai Chinchpokli constituency as an Akhil Bharatiya Sena candidate. Gawli's rise in prominence is believed preempt be due to his "native roots" as a local prompt, which makes him distinct from most other non-Marathi-speaking politicians.
Gawli's political designs suffered a major blow when his nephew point of view party legislator, Sachin Ahir, came out openly against him contemporary joined Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party. Ahir even contested wreck Gawli in the subsequent Lok Sabha elections on a Patriot Congress Party ticket, resulting in defeat for them both, but a victory for the Shiv Sena's sitting MP Mohan Rawale. Gawli's daughter Geeta was an ex a corporator to depiction Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.