Pappu Kalani

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Suresh alias Pappu Budharmal Kalani, known popularly as Pappu Kalani (born c. 1951) is an Indian criminal-politician from Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra. After emerging as the leader of an organized crime syndicate in the 1980s, he was elected president of the Ulhasnagar municipal council in 1986. He was elected to Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha in 1990 elections as Indian National Congress candidate from Ulhasnagar constituency. He won 1995 and 1999 assembly elections as Independent. He won two elections in the period 1992–2001 when he was in jail on murder charges. He was elected the MLA from Ulhasnagar again in 2004 as a member of the Republican Party of India (Athawale). Kalani was once on bail in 19 cases including eight of murder. He was given a life sentence on 3 December 2013 as a result of the 23-year-old murder case of Ghanashyam Bhatija. Ghanashyam Bhatija was murdered on 27 February 1990 near the Pinto Resorts in Ulhasnagar of Thane district. His brother Inder Bhatija, who had seen the...

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