Origin And History
During British rule mumbai was developed by Britishers as an important port for their trade.This led to development of industry specially cotton industry in mumbai.As a result of this labor from all parts of India started migrating to mumbai resulting a a diverse cultural and socio-economic society.After independence the License Raj was established in India where a lot of government regulations was there on establishment of any business.It was during this time when the first mafia "Pathan Karim Lala" came into being by doing business like gambling and illegal liquor. The anti-gambling laws and other rules by then sort of economically social regime made this business really profitable and the mumbai was basically domain of three major dons:
Pathan Karim Lala, Varadaraja Mudailar and Mastan Mirza.
Then in 1982 there was a year long strike in the cotton mills in which around 30,000 mill workers participated.This was an fertile environment for crime to flourish and here came the starting of Dawood's crime career. He, also known as Sheikh Dawood Hassn , born in Ratangiri and Son of a head constable of mumbai CID, started working for Karim Lala. But after some time he splitted from Karim Lala and went ahead to start business of his own.
Formation of D-Company
After starting on his own Dawood was in need of partners to assist him with his business. He found them in Bada Rajan and Chota Rajan. in 1983 Bada Rajan was murdered by his associate Abdul Kunju. Chota Rajan revenged his murder and became the right hand man of dawood.After that Dwaood soon shifted to Dubai and started operating his business from there. His brothers Anees Ibrahim and Chota Shakeel were his key aides.
The Break-Up
Soon the problems started to arise between Dawood and Chota Rajan because of splitting of money and other business share . The Mumbai bomb blasts in 1993 did the work of setting fire and Rajan gave this act of Dawood a communal color. He went to Bangkok to start crime business of his own. Very soon he was suspected to involved in the murders of Philoo Khan (a suspected dealer in narcotics) in Bangkok, Takiuddin Wahid (of East West Airlines) in Mumbai and Sunil Sawant, an acknowledged henchman of Dawood, in Dubai. this resulted in fierce competition among the gangs and marked the start of a rivalry which continues till today.
The attempt on Chota Rajan in 2000, in Bangkok also indicate the growing rivalry between the
two.Dawood also lost another close aide abu salem when he killed Gulshan Kumar without Dawood's permission.
Key Business Areas
The D-Company though being a criminal organization has spread to almost every high earning industry and thus making Dawood richer and richer. The main industries where D Company works are :
- Bollywood : Bollywood is the place which the under world dons best suited to turn their black money into white. In 1990's the failure rate and the production rate of movies started going up. It was at this time underworld invested a lot of money into movies and slowly they started making demands like casting their favorite actors, music rights etc. Film personalities like monica bedi , a mole of abu salem , when she was casted showed in a famous movie despite of a poor filmi track record shows the influence of underworld. Other examples include the films like Chori Chori Chupke Chupke , where the money of underworld was involved in the production of film.
- Real Estate: As the infrastructure of mumbai started developing the rate of land grew exponentially. The world dons were involved to a great extent in buying the land in key locations at a very low price by hook or crook.
- Other Sources: The other areas of business includes asking for protection money from various rich film personalities and kidnapping, though latter has developed as much more organized industry in bihar.
The bhai of mumbai is also a family man. Like the famous L.N Mittal dawood bhai also has a daughter and her marriage also got the front page coverage in news papers just like mittal's daughter.His daughter is married to son of a pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad who says that dawood and his wife are like sisters and he also treats dawood's wife as his sister. These shows the close contacts which dawood enjoys with people of certain nations.
Conclusion
D-Company has been now identified as an international terrorist organization with links with Al Quaida. So it is hoped that soon dawood will be brought to justice and his reign of crimes will end.
Source and Inspiration for this post has been mainly the content from wikipedia and other resources on web.Author has not conducted any field survey to test the claims made.
