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Aug 1, 2015 · Few stories in present-day India are more compelling than the legend of the Mumbai underworld, a shameful institution whose fortunes peaked in the second half of the last century.
But the bloodbath on the streets of Mumbai in the 1990s with gangs wresting for control, the rivalry between Dawood and Rajan, saw the Mumbai police unleash the encounter squad.
- Presley Thomas
A gangland killing is murder carried out by organised criminals and Mumbai was witness to a spate of them, particularly in the 1990s. Gangsters had been lurking in the city’s shadows since the...
Mar 23, 2024 · Many point to an incident of gang-war from 1998 as a trigger for the spate of encounter killings that rocked Mumbai. In November that year, two bystanders were killed as Chhota Rajan gang members shot dead a Dawood aide at the Bandra railway station.
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Dec 4, 2008 · What happened in Mumbai was by any standard unprecedented and the shock at the sheer audacity of the attacks on India’s commercial capital continues to resonate. The attacks are being...
- Anmol Saxena
The 2008 Mumbai attacks[14] (also referred to as 26/11 attacks) [15][a] were a series of Islamist terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant Islamist [16] organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai. [17][18][19] The ...
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Nov 25, 2018 · “At about 9.45 p.m., we went to take the elevator down, but hotel security stopped us saying there was a gang war on the ground floor.
