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  1. Biography

     Early life  Contact with Dawood Ibrahim  Boss of his own gang  Informant  Involvement in the extortion rackets  Extorting Bollywood  Clashes with the law   Open war with Dawood Ibrahim  

  2. References

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}Ali Baba Budesh (born 1957)[1] is a notorious Indian extortionist and underworld don of the Indian Mafia, based in Bahrain. Fearing backlash from the Mumbai police, Budesh fled to Bahrain in the late eighties, where he opened up his new base of operations in the capital city of Manama.[2]

Biography

Early life

Most of the details of Budesh's early life and background are unclear. Born to an Indian mother and Arab father, he made his entrance into the Mumbai underworld as a petty pickpocket and a street ruffian. The police in Vikhroli, a north-eastern suburb of the city, had registered a case of assault against him.[2] However, prior to his involvement in petty crime, Budesh is known to have studied at a boarding school near Pune.[4]

Contact with Dawood Ibrahim

While living in the slums near the Pankheshah Baba shrine at Ghatkopar (W), Budesh came into contact with some of Dawood Ibrahim's gang members who were on the run from the police, and sought shelter in the labyrinthine slums of the Vikhroli Parksite area. Budeshi was rewarded for his initial assistance of these men, when he was sent to Dubai and met Dawood Ibrahim, the infamous head of the D-Company and India's most wanted fugitive.[2]

Boss of his own gang

Budesh later split from the D-Company, together with other key aides of Dawood Ibrahim such as the Pakistani smuggler Shoaib Khan, Irfan Goga, and Ijaz Pathan, and formed his own separate gang with its headquarters in Bahrain.[3] He allied himself with some of Dawood Ibrahim's enemies and went on to lead them against him. These a feared gangster from Virar-Virar, Subhash Singh Thakur, who is currently lodged in New Delhi's Tihar Central Prison. Another former Ibrahim aide, Dilawar Khan, became Budesh's right-hand man. This alliance caused some major upsets to Ibrahim's declining empire.[2]

Informant

He also began informing on members of the D-Company to law enforcement. The detention of Dawood Ibrahim's brother, Anees Ibrahim at the Bahrain International Airport at Muharraq in 1996 is believed to have been due to a tip-off from Budesh. Dawood spent over Rs 5 lakh for his brother's release. Similarly, the month-long incarceration of Abu Salem, another key underworld figure at the UAE's Al-Rafa detention centre was attributed to Budesh. Budesh also began informing on other Indian NRI gangsters such as Chhota Shakeel, Noora Ibrahim, etc., forcing them to flee the UAE for Pakistan, where they are believed to have made their base of operations in Karachi.[2]

Involvement in the extortion rackets

In spite of the falling out with his former mentor, Budesh's policy in his extortion rackets closely follow Dawood Ibrahim's modus operandi. His targets include builders, diamond merchants and figures within the Bollywood film industry. His demands from builders include an annual fee or a few flats in their projects. From diamond merchants, he seeks deposits in numbered accounts in Swiss banks. However, the biggest contributors to his extortion racket have always been the Bollywood film figures.[2]

Those who usually refuse to pay the extortion money or hafta as it is called in the Mumbai underworld jargon, are dealt with in a severe manner. For instance, when Natwarlal Desai, a local Mumbai based builder refused to pay the hafta being demanded by Budesh's gang, he was later shot dead on 18 August 1997 at Nariman Point by the Budesh gang members. Those businessmen who were reluctant to pay the hafta to Budesh's enforcers, paid up with alacrity after the Desai killing. After this incident, no other killing by the Budesh gang was reported for a long time.[2]

On April, 1998, Keith Rodrigues, the chief steward at the Copper Chimney restaurant at Saki Naka was shot dead by Ali Budesh's gunmen. The murder was done as a warning to the restaurant's owner, Satish Bansal, who had been dodging Budesh's demand for Rs 5 lakh for months.[2]

Extorting Bollywood

Some leading Bollywood film producers also became victims of Budesh's extortion tactics. He made threatening calls to Rakesh Roshan, Mukesh Bhatt and Boney Kapoor, and demanded up to 2 khokha (Rs. 2 crore) from each of them.[2] The Tips Cassette Company owner, Ramesh Taurani, was also being extorted for the same amount.[4]

On 21 January 2000, Rakesh Roshan was shot at by two Budesh gang members near his office on Tilak Road at Santacruz West.[5] The assailants fired two bullets at him, one of which hit him on the left arm while the other grazed his chest. As the director fell to the ground, the assailants fled the scene.[6] The assailants were later identified as Sunil Vithal Gaikwad and Sachin Kamble. The attack on Roshan was not undertaken with the intent to kill, but to signal that the Shiv Sena could no longer protect its clients. Roshan had stonewalled demands from Budesh for a percentage of the profits from the overseas sale of the Hindi blockbuster, Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai.[7]

Clashes with the law

Budesh claimed responsibility for the hand-grenade attack near a hotel in Dahisar, a western suburb of Bombay on June, 1998. In the incident, some gangsters, when challenged, hurled the grenade at the police. In the blast and the subsequent police firing, two policemen and three gangsters were killed and several others were injured. However, Budesh's claim was dismissed by the Mumbai police.[8] The following year, Tirupati Kotian and Austin Carvalho, two members of the Ali Budesh gang were shot dead in an encounter with the Mumbai police at Kandivli.[9]

Open war with Dawood Ibrahim

Budesh had a great falling out with Dawood over a property deal in Mumbai in 1997. Budesh, along with Uttar Pradesh don Subhash Singh Thakur, had hoped to extort money out of this deal from Natwar Lal Desai, a well known builder.[4]

However, Desai who had links with the D-Company, refused to pay them any cash and asked Dawood to intervene. This resulted in a verbal spat between the two dons. Dawood threatened Budesh on phone asking the latter to stay away from Desai, to which the latter did not respond well.[4]

According to the excerpts from a tape sent by Budesh to India Today on March 2010, he stated:

{{Cquote|I told him (Dawood) that he had no right to abuse me. I told him that so far he had known me as Ali Bhai, but the day I become Ali Budesh, you will cry!}}[4]

In retaliation, Budesh and Thakur had Desai killed on 18 August 1997.[4]

In March 2010 Ali Badesh declared an open war against his former mentor, Dawood Ibrahim and his D-company, vowing to kill the former. Budesh has teamed up with underworld don Babloo Srivastava and launched Operation D against Dawood and his gang.[10]

The duo are now being seen as the most deadly threat that the D-company has ever faced, bigger than even Dawood's arch-rival, Chhota Rajan.[10]

They are in fact accused by the Nepalese and Indian authorities of being behind the murders of Dawood's three main agents in Nepal, i.e., Majid Manihar, Parvez Tanda and Jamim Shah, Nepalese media entrepreneur who was reputed to be the architect of Dawood's counterfeit currency racket in India.[10]

Dawood is believed to have entrusted his chief lieutenant, Chhota Shakeel to deal with Budesh.[10]

References

1. ^Rise of a new don in Mumbai? - 29 October 2009, Mid Day
2. ^New ganglord rises in Bombay, 1998
3. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1607/16070420.htm |title=Mumbai's mafia wars |access-date=7 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403162348/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1607/16070420.htm |archive-date=3 April 2007 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
4. ^Bollywood under threat again
5. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1917/19170340.htm |title=The stars and the dons |access-date=7 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728074038/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1917/19170340.htm |archive-date=28 July 2010 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
6. ^Rakesh Roshan shot at
7. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1711/17110430.htm |title=Of politics and profit |access-date=7 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007055526/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1711/17110430.htm |archive-date=7 October 2008 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
8. ^CID probe ordered into grenade attack on policemen
9. ^2 Budesh gangsters killed in encounter
10. ^Bahrain don Budesh challenges Dawood - 29 March 2010, India Today
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