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Karim Lala (1911 – 19 February 2002), born Abdul Karim Sher Khan in the Samalam Village of the Shegal District of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, was infamous as one of the three "mafia dons of Mumbai" in India for more than two decades from the sixties to the early eighties, [1] the other two being Mastan Mirza aka Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar.
It was crossed with an "X" after his death, signifying that he was eliminated. From the early 1960s to late 1970s the Bombay Underworld was dominated by syndicates controlled by Haji Mastan, Karim Lala and Varadrajan Mudaliar. In the early 1980s, criminal violence in Mumbai grew as their influence declined.
The murder of Kaskar is an important chapter in Mumbai's underworld as it unleashed a gruesome gang war between Ibrahim's gang and the Pathan gang, leading to a spate of shootouts until the retired don, Karim Lala, requested a truce, and eventually the Pathan gang's dominance was replaced by Ibrahim's gang.
Haji Mastan, popularly known as Sultan Mirza, was an organised crime gang leader, originally from Tamil Nadu and based in Bombay.He was one of an famous trio of mafia gang leaders in Bombay for over two decades from the 1960s to the early 1980s, along with Karim Lala leader of the Pathan gang, and Varadarajan Mudaliar, another famous gang leader from Tamil Nadu in South India.
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Sathuvachari Varadarajan Mudaliar (9 October 1926 – 2 January 1988), also known as Vardhabhai and Vardha, was an Indian crime boss.From the early 1960s to the 1980s, he was, along with Karim Lala and Haji Mastan, one of the most powerful mob bosses in Bombay.