Mumbai Underworld headed for a Mangalorean takeover?

March 22, 2011

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Mumbai, March 22: The Mangalorean mafia seems headed towards a partial takeover of the Mumbai underworld.

After Ravi Pujari killed two engineers at an Andheri construction site to send a chilling message to a builder on March 14, it was his bete noire Hemant Pujari's turn to strike with the murder of a businessman in Goregaon on Saturday.

Hemant Pujari hired shooter Mukesh Sharma alias Shabbir alias Nurul Islam Suleiman from Uttar Pradesh to gun down Angara Pujari, a Monginis frachisee.

Angara was shot through the neck at noon near Goregaon railway station, confirmed Additional Commissioner of Police (north region) Ramarao Pawar.

"We are trying to confirm the role of two women accomplices and whether this faction was involved in earlier crimes," he said.

A local accomplice was picked up by the police last evening but investigators refused to divulge his name saying it would hamper further investigations.

Initial investigations have indicated that Angara had been receiving threats from members of the Hemant Pujari gang, or HP gang as they are known in the underworld, for a long time. A complaint had also been lodged in this connection in 2008.

Police say Hemant and Ravi Pujari, both Mangalorean gangsters, are trying to gain a firm foothold in the western suburbs. They are outsourcing the shootouts to avoid suspicion.

"Hemant Pujari had almost been hibernating for the past few months. The timing of the businessman's murder points to him feeling threatened by his former associates and fellow Mangaloreans Ravi Pujari and Santosh Shetty stepping up their activities in Mumbai," said an underworld source.

The trio had broken away from mentor Chhota Rajan around 2001. Shetty made a name for himself in the underworld with the killing of gangster Bharat Nepali in Bangkok.

Underworld insiders say that, with the latest murder, the Pujaris and Shetty seem set to corner the income from the builder community in the western suburbs.

Ravi Pujari lived near the Sahar airport and was educated there before getting involved in underworld operations. His mentor, Sri Mama, inducted him into the Chhota Rajan gang in 1995 and he formed a deadly combination with Rajan's key lieutenant Guru Satam before breaking away from the gang. Ravi Pujari was not taken seriously until the recent killing at Andheri.

Hemant Pujari was working as a waiter in Ghatkopar before joining hands with Chhota Rajan after a killing at Kherwadi, where he lived and grew up. He was part of Rajan's core team and broke away from him around 2002 to work on his own. He holds sway over Bandra (East) and between Goregaon and Vasai.

Santosh Shetty alias Madan Sharma was part of the Chhota Rajan gang between 1993 and 2002. He operates from countries such as Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia and was masterminding drug deals before switching over to running extortion syndicates in Mumbai.

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May 25,2020

The government of India has added 141 more flights to West Asian countries for the second phase of Vande Bharat Mission, its massive repatriation programme for citizens stranded overseas because of Covid-19-related travel restrictions.

The second phase was to end on May 22. However, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the ongoing phase will last till June 13 and that India is looking at making Frankfurt a hub for the mission.

With these new flights, more than half of them to the United Arab Emirates, the total number of flights in the second phase of the programme have gone up to more than 400, people familiar with developments said on condition of anonymity.

The flights were added due to increased demand from citizens stranded in West Asian countries and the availability of adequate quarantine facilities in states for the returning Indians, the people said. As with all the flights operated so far under Vande Bharat Mission, priority will be given in the second phase to Indian nationals with compelling reasons for returning to the country, they added.

The additional flights are from the UAE (81 flights), Oman and Saudi Arabia (15 flights each), Kuwait (14 flights), Qatar (11 flights) and Bahrain (five flights).

A majority of the flights are bound for Kerala (84 flights), while the other destinations are Delhi (10 flights), Tamil Nadu (nine flights), Telangana (six flights) Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir (five flights each), Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (four flights each), Punjab (three flights), Odisha and West Bengal (two flights each), Chandigarh, Karnataka and Goa (one flight each).

The other 260-odd flights being operated during the second phase of Vande Bharat Mission are from Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tajikistan, the UK, Ukraine and the US.

The second phase of the repatriation programme began on May 16 and will continue till June 13, with all the flights being operated by state-run Air India and its subsidiary Air India Express. Private airlines are likely to be included in the third phase.

As of Thursday, a total of 23,475 Indians have been repatriated under Vande Bharat Mission. The second phase had included new destinations such as Istanbul, Ho Chi Minh City and Lagos, and had increased flights to the US and Europe.

More than 259,000 Indians in 98 countries across the world have registered to return under Vande Bharat Mission. Most of them are workers (28%), students (25%), professionals (14.5%), and short-term visa holders such as tourists (7.6%). Fishermen, deportees and Indian nationals who benefited from visa amnesties have also registered.

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Tuesday, 26 May 2020

No flights from oman to manglore nor to Banglore 

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February 23,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 23: The sleuths of Custom Department have seized ephedrine worth Rs 5 Crore in courier terminal of Air Cargo complex in Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), the department said on Sunday.

Customs Joint Commissioner M J Chethan, in a statement, said that Central Intelligence Unit, Air Cargo Complex, scanned the package while verifying export consignments and found concealment of some powder. 5.04 kg of Ephedrine worth Rs 5 crore was packed in polythene pouches and concealed between cardboard layers of wedding invitation cards.

Detailed examination of the Wedding cards revealed banned drugs hidden between 43 wedding invitation cards in the package that also contained a few clothes.

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July 26,2020

Udupi, Jul 26: Two persons including a lady doctor have been arrested by the Kaup police in Udupi district for trying to use fake salary documents to avail loan from a bank to buy a car. 

According to police, on July 24, the doctor had visited Bank of Baroda's branch office at Kaup Moodabettu. She had approached the branch manager for a car loan for herself and her brother. She claimed that her monthly salary is Rs 2.66 lakh.

The bank verified the details furnished along with the loan application. The bank found that even though the doctor had furnished salary slips of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, she was presently not employed there.

The bank manager has filed a complaint at Kaup police station, accusing the doctor of trying to cheat the bank by availing loan on the basis of fake documents.

The police registered a case and nabbed her when she visited the Katapady branch of the same bank today. The police also arrested a man, who according to the doctor, created fake documents for her.

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