MARRIED TO MOB, NEETA LIVED DANGEROUSLY, PAID THE PRICE IN THE END

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In article <Bharat-213...@news.mantra.com>,
j...@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Married to Mob, Neeta lived dangerously, paid the price in the end
>
> By Smruti Koppikar, and J. Dey
> The Indian Express
>
> Mumbai, November 14 - Neeta Naik had many faces: a
> graduate from Sophia College in posh south Mumbai, a
> fiery corporator in the Brihanmumbai Municipal
> Corporation, a Shiv Sena party member. But perhaps, she
> was best known as gangster Ashwin Naik's wife, and on
> Tuesday, that connection cost the 37 year-old her life.
>
> By all standards, Neeta Naik led a split life --
> corporator by day and gangster's wife by night. She was
> an educated and absorbing Sena corporator, one of the few
> women in a party that doesn't easily make space for women
> at the top.
>
> If the Mumbai police's line of investigation -- that
> Ashwin Naik had his wife shot because he could not
> stomach her extra-marital relationship -- is to be
> believed, then there was another side to Neeta Naik that
> lay hidden. The police team that's headed for Tihar jail
> to question Ashwin on this may return with some clues,
> but it will do nothing to redeem her reputation.
>
> Her modus operandi vis-a-vis the Naik gang was clear:
> nothing would jeopardise her political career. She had
> apparently given strict instructions to the gang that no
> one was to meet her at home. Politics, say her
> associates, was the route she chose to gain
> respectability and clout as well as legitimise some of
> the activities.
>
> Neeta knew the sharp shooters of the gang by their first
> names and often enquired about their well-being. She
> operated through a well-established network in the Parel-
> Dadar area in central Mumbai, wherein key shop-keepers
> would collect weekly or monthly hafta (extortion) from
> traders, shop owners and hawkers in the area.
>
> Dadar, Mumbai's main vegetable market, was the Naik
> gang's adda. Around 600 shop-keepers and hawkers
> allegedly give a monthly hafta to the Naik gang. ''The
> bhaji market rate is also set by the boss,'' said an
> insider, meaning that the retail rate at Dadar and
> therefore across the rest of Mumbai was decided by Ashwin
> and Neeta.
>
> Police also believe that the largely Marwari traders and
> small-time businessmen at Shuklaji Street in south Mumbai
> paid an annual hafta of Rs 10 lakh. The current income of
> the gang is believed to be in the region of Rs 80 lakh a
> month. Apparently, Neeta took over the the finances of
> the gang after her husband fled six years ago. Another
> theory is that she was killed because she didn't split
> the booty among the gang members.
>
> Neeta's first brush with the underworld was when she was
> still a teenager. Her father Jethwa was reportedly a
> hafta collector for the late Amar Naik, Ashwin's elder
> brother and the brain behind the Naik gang. Jethwa was
> gunned down about ten years ago by the rival Arun Gawli
> gang. By this time, Neeta had pushed Ashwin, an engineer,
> into the gang operations.
>
> Ironically, the Sena has been unusually silent about the
> killing of one of its most prominent corporators. Though
> Sena MP Mohan Rawle did meet police commissioner M.N.
> Singh to assert that ''Naik's murder was politically
> motivated'', by and large, key Sena leaders have kept
> their counsel.
>
> Says one of them: ''We made a noise about the earlier
> eight shootouts but this is a delicate personal matter,
> and it's odd to comment. But we do miss her as a
> corporator. She was hardworking and had leadership
> qualities.''
>
> Ashwin Naik married Neeta for love in a dramatic
> elopement on the last day of her graduation exam. Now,
> her bloody end has brought the shadow of violence over
> her children -- Pinky (14) and Hardik (10). Ironically,
> Ashwin wanted them ''brought up protected from the
> underworld'', as he wrote last month to his father Maruti
> and sister-in-law (Amar's wife) Anjali.
>
> Thursday, November 16, 2000
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