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Organised crime in India refers to organised crime elements originating in India and active in many parts of the world. The purpose of organised crime in India, as elsewhere in the world, is monetary gain. Its virulent form in modern times is due to several socio-economic and political factors and advances in science and technology. There is no firm data to indicate the number of organised criminal gangs operating in the country, their membership, their modus operandi, and the areas of their operations. Their structure and leadership patterns may not strictly fall in line with the classical Italian mafia.[1]
Haji Mastan, originally known as Mastan Haider Mirza, was a Bombay-based Tamil Muslim mobster who became the first celebrity gangster in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai).[2] Born in 1926 in a Tamil family in Pannaikulam, near Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu.[2] At age 8, moved to Bombay with his father. The father-son duo ran a small cycle repair shop in Crawford market. 10 years later, in 1944, Mastan joined the Bombay docks as a porter and from there entered organised crime. He worked in association with Karim Lala and by the 1960s became a rich man. He amassed millions from smuggling gold, silver, and electronic goods and expanded his clout in the film industry by investing his money with directors and studios in Bollywood film production.[3] As Mastan's influence in Bollywood grew, he began to produce films himself and was a well-known producer.[2]
Thuggee were crimes carried out by organized gangs of robbers and murderers which operated in the northern and eastern parts of the Indian subcontinent.[25] Thugs were gangs of highway robbers, who tricked and strangled their victims with a handkerchief or noose.[26] They would then rob and bury their victims. Sometimes they mutilated the corpses of their victims to avoid detection.[27] The leader of a gang was called a 'jemadar'. The usage of military ranks like 'jemadar', 'subedar' and 'private' suggests that these gangs had military links.[27] Although strangulation was their main method of murder, they also used blades and poison.[28] The thugs comprised some who had inherited thuggee as a family vocation, and others who were forced to turn to it out of necessity.[28] The leadership of many of the groups tended to be hereditary with family members sometimes serving together in the same band. Such Thugs were known as aseel.[29] Not all thugs were trained by their family but rather by experienced thugs called 'guru'.[30] While they usually kept their acts a secret, female thugs also existed and were called baronee in Ramasee, while an important male Thug was called baroo.[31]
There has been a spurt in the formation and activities of such criminal gangs in Punjab over the last decade even though some gangs, associated with those based in Uttar Pradesh, have been operational in the state since the end of militancy in Punjab.[36] Post militancy, the gangs took to contract killings. The real estate and industrial sector boom of the early 2000s saw several criminals surfacing with the primary objective of controlling unions. The flourishing of the banking sector, especially finance companies, spurred the demand for bouncers who ensured recovery of bad loans and helped in taking disputed properties. Cricket bookies also use the services of these bouncers. Around five years back when the boom in real estate ended, these gangs then turned to extortion and protection money as their source of income.[citation needed] Most of these are inter-state gangs as well as the ones specializing in arms smuggling, narcotics and abduction. Kidnappings for ransom in Punjab, something which rarely happened earlier, are on the rise.[37]
The gangs tend to move in groups of 5-10 people,[40] and wear a kurta and lungi. During the day, they gather at transport hubs or disused urban spaces. They conceal themselves as beggars or common labourers to identify potential houses to rob. Before moving on to a different town, the gangs attempt to steal from multiple homes.[40]
Kala Kachcha Gangs (also known as Kale-Kachchewale or Kale Kachche Gangs) refers to certain organized criminal gangs in Punjab, India. The Kala Kachcha gang members are robbers and dacoits, who don police uniform or 'Kale Kachche' (black underpants)[43] to evade detection. They put grease on their body as lubricant.
There are many such gangs suspected to be active in Punjab. They usually target families living at isolated places in the countryside and always thrash their victims before robbing them. They sometimes rape the victims they rob. In 2014, the Mohali police busted one such gang who allegedly carried out a spate of dacoities in the district in June and July. Twelve of them were arrested while planning another dacoity in an abandoned factory.
In the cinema of India, particularly Bollywood, crime films and gangster films inspired by organised crime in India have been produced since 1940. Indian cinema has several genres of such crime films.
In the early 1970s, a new genre of Indian crime films and gangster films arose, set in urban India: Bombay underworld films, later called Mumbai underworld films. These films are often inspired by real Mumbai underworld gangsters, such as Haji Mastan, Dawood Ibrahim and D-Company. These films are often set around Mumbai slums such as Dharavi or Juhu, and gangsters in these films often speak with a Tapori or Bombay Hindi street dialect.
By the mid-1970s, gritty, violent crime films and action films about gangsters (Bombay underworld) as well as bandits (dacoits) had become popular. The writing of Salim-Javed and acting of Amitabh Bachchan popularized the trend, with films such as Zanjeer and particularly Deewaar, a crime film inspired by Gunga Jumna[46] that pitted "a policeman against his brother, a gang leader based on real-life smuggler Haji Mastan" portrayed by Bachchan; Deewaar was described as being "absolutely key to Indian cinema" by Danny Boyle.[53] Along with Bachchan, other actors that rode the crest of this trend include Feroz Khan.[54]
The popular crime films written by Salim-Javed and starring Amitabh Bachchan reflected the socio-economic and socio-political realities of 1970s India, channeling the growing popular discontent and disillusionment among the masses, and the failure of the state in ensuring their welfare and well-being, in a time when prices were rapidly rising, commodities were becoming scarce, public institutions were losing legitimacy, smugglers and gangsters were gathering political clout,[48] and there was an unprecedented growth of slums.[50] The cinema of Salim-Javed and Amitabh Bachchan dealt with themes relevant to Indian society at the time, such as urban poverty in slums, corruption in society, and the Bombay underworld crime scene,[51] and was perceived by audiences as anti-establishment, often represented by an "angry young man" protagonist, presented as a vigilante or anti-hero,[52] with his suppressed rage giving a voice to the angst of the urban poor.[50]
Over the past few months, the Maharashtra police has taken action against gangs allegedly trying to get a foothold in the state, especially Mumbai, by targeting Bollywood stars and using it to extort money from others.
Two gangs, one bearing allegiance to Bishnoi, currently behind bars for allegedly ordering the hit on Moosewala, and the other linked to Harvinder Singh Rinda, associated with pro-Khalistan outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and suspected to be based out of Pakistan, have been on the radar of the state police over the past few months.
For decades, Bollywood has been an easy target of gangsters seeking extortion as well as publicity which they used to further terrorise others. However, over the past few years, underworld gangsters notorious for making extortion calls in Mumbai such as Ravi Pujari, Ejaz Lakdawala and Chhota Rajan have been neutralised by the Mumbai Police, majority of them being extradited. Barring a few phone calls from henchmen linked to Dawood Ibrahim, the menace of extortion calls has been considerably reduced which the two gangs presently in question may seek to exploit, sources said.
In the mill districts of central and south-central Mumbai, the matka business was flourishing, and various small gangs, including those led by Rajan Nair (Bada Rajan), Rama Naik and Manya Surve, entered the trade.
Ejaz Lakdawala: An ex-student of Bandra's St Stanislaus school, Ejaz Lakdawala started out as an employee in his uncle's transport company. In 1993, he killed one Haren Mehta during an altercation at a cricket match. He was arrested, imprisoned and acquitted in 1995. In the prison, he met one Sunil Madgaonkar alias Matya, who gave Lakdawala the supari to kill alleged Chhota Shakeel aide Farid Rajji. Rajji survived the attempt on his life in 1996 and Lakdawala was arrested and sent to the Nashik jail, from where he escaped in 1998 and fled to Malaysia. He later joined Chhota Rajan and after that formed his own gang.
Ravi Pujari: A school dropout, he speaks English, Hindi, Kannada and Tulu. He started his criminal career from the Andheri area in Mumbai in the mid-1990s and targets only film personalities and businessmen of the western suburbs in Mumbai. Initially, he was a small-time criminal before he joined gangster Chhota Rajan and moved to Dubai in the late 1990s. After that, he started extorting builders and hoteliers. He wanted to make his own name in the underworld. So he separated from Rajan around a decade ago and now operates his own gang.
The underworld in Mumbai at the time was flourishing with extortion rackets. Gangsters like Karim Lala, Babu Reshim and Rajan Nair, also known as Bada Rajan, were waging war against each other to establish their supremacy over the city. The Pathan gangs and Dawood Ibrahim were also locked in a violent battle. Blood spilled freely on the Mumbai streets. Contract killings were the order of the day. The citizens were getting restless, and the police were getting desperate.
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