Arun Gawli
Arun Gawli | |
|---|---|
| Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 16 October 2004 – 13 October 2009 | |
| Criminal charge | Murder |
| Penalty | Life imprisonment |
| Preceded by | Madhu Chavan |
| Succeeded by | Constituency dissolved |
| Constituency | Chinchpokli |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Arun Gulab Gawli 17 July 1955 (age 70) |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Party | Akhil Bharatiya Sena |
| Spouse | Asha Gawli |
| Relations | Sachin Ahir (nephew) |
| Children | 5 |
Arun Gulab Gawli (born 17 July 1955), also known as Arun Gulab Ahir, is an Indian politician, underworld don and retired gangster. Gawli and his brother Kishor (Pappa) entered the Mumbai underworld in the 1970s, when they joined the "Byculla Company", a criminal gang led by Rama Naik and Babu Reshim, operating in the central Mumbai areas of Byculla, Parel and Saat Rasta. In 1988, after Rama Naik was killed in a police encounter, Gawli took over the gang and began operating it from his residence, Dagdi Chawl. Under his control, the gang controlled most criminal activities in the central Mumbai areas. Throughout the late eighties and nineties, Gawli's gang 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.