Haji Mastan

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Haji Mastan (1 March 1926 – 25 June 1994) was an organised crime gang leader, originally from Tamil Nadu and based in Mumbai. He was one of the infamous trio of mafia gang leaders in Mumbai for over two decades from the 1960s to the early 1980s, along with Karim Lala leader of the Pathan gang in Mumbai and Chennai, and Varadarajan Mudaliar, another famous gang leader from Tamil Nadu in South India. At his peak, Mastan operated a powerful smuggling syndicate in Mumbai and along the Gujarat coast and later diversified into film financing and real estate business. Mastan was known to be a shrewd businessman and a cunning deal-maker. He is known to be the only Bombay don who ruled without sustaining an injury. His illegal smuggling business was not caught by the government or police during his lifetime. He always maintained friendly relations with the police and government officials and often promoted peace between rival gangs, and was good friends with Lala, Mudaliar, Hassan Patni and Shiv...

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