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The milkman who became a gangster
From climbing his bathroom window to escape the police, to becoming a Robinhood for Dagdi chawl residents, gangster Arun Gawli’s life has been a roller coaster ride of sorts.
Gawli’s father Gulabrao moved from Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh to Dagdi chawl in Mumbai in the early 1950s.
Owing to his poor financial condition, Gawli was forced to drop out of school in Class 5 and take up his family business of supplying milk, around Saat Raasta area.
In the 1980s, he worked for Rama Naik’s gang and was soon entrusted the responsibility of providing protection to Dawood Ibrahim’s consignments.
Soon, he gave up his job at Khatau mills and joined the Amar Naik gang.
Gawli was first arrested in 1986 for the murder of criminal Parasnath Pandey and Sashi Rasham, the kingpin of the Cobra Gang.
After a fallout between Rama Naik and Dawood Ibrahim over a plot of land at Jogeshwari, in which Rama Naik got killed, Gawli become Dawood’s arch enemy.
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