Dilip Buwa

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Dilip Buwa (born Dilip Kohok; 1962 – 16 November 1991) was an Indian gangster who used to work for the D-Company, an international crime syndicate of the Mumbai underworld led by Dawood Ibrahim. He was one of the men who were killed in 1991 by an encounter during the Lokhandwala Complex shootout. Buwa was killed by the Mumbai police Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS). Buwa was portrayed by Tusshar Kapoor in the Bollywood film Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007). The director of the movie, Apoorva Lakhia, stated in an interview that Buwa once deliberately fired his pistol at the feet of two girls at a bus stand in Bhandup, just because they were laughing at him. In 1977, gangsters Rama Naik and Babu Reshim from central Bombay formed a joint gang called "Byculla Company" along with other Maharashtrian gangsters like Arun Gawli, Sada Pawle, Kiran Walawalkar, Chandrashekhar Mirashi and Ashok Choudhary aka Chota Babu. Buwa lived in Premier Colony, Sonapur Lane in Kurla (West) in east Mumbai. He started his...

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