Gharal and Qavi were the first to walk into the ground floor apartment where seven of them were watching TV. On the other hand, Rajwani did not recognise the police officers who were in their plain clothes and escaped without any incident. Qavi spotted Gopal Rajwani at the main gate, but did not arrest him for fear of surprising the gangsters hidden inside the building. According to the official police version, Officer M.I. What happened next is subject to dispute and controversy. One was for reconnaissance, while the other two cordoned off the spot. The ATS formed three teams for the task of arresting the fugitives and taking them into custody. The apartment in which they were hiding belonged to Gopal Rajwani, a fugitive gangster from Ulhasnagar and associate of Dawood Ibrahim. The informer reported that they were armed and were waiting for a few builders who would be coming in the evening. According to the former Additional Commissioner of Police Aftab Ahmed Khan, the ATS received a tip-off from a police informer that Maya Dolas and his gang were hiding in the A wing, flats 002 and 003 in the Swati building at the Lokhandwala Complex, a posh upper middle class residential area. ShootoutĪ news reel of Star TV interview with ACP Aftab Ahmed Khan shows parts of the shootout as captured in 1991. Maya Dolas, had in fact escaped from prison a few years prior to the shootout. However, they were also fugitives on the run, with ongoing arrest warrants for them. They also conducted extortion activities on Ibrahim's behalf. Dolas and Buwa were a feared duo and soon began a steady rise within the ranks of the D-Company. This brought them into favour with Dawood Ibrahim, who was gunning for the Joshi gang after the killing of his pointman Satish Raje. He then convinced notorious Joshi gang sharpshooter Dilip Buwa to switch sides and together on 17 September 1989, they led a stealth attack against the Joshi gang in Kanjurmarg, in which five people were killed. Īfter Joshi's murder, Maya later broke out of the Ashok Joshi gang, and formed his own gang. On 3 December 1988, Joshi was killed at the Bombay-Pune road near Panvel by a 15-man hit squad led by Chhota Rajan at Ibrahim's orders. Dolas had got his start running several successful extortion rackets for the Indian National Congress criminal-politician, Ashok Joshi's gang at Kanjurmarg. Among the most prominent was Mahindra Dolas, a gangster who was known more popularly by his nickname Maya. From his base in Dubai, Ibrahim controlled underworld activities through his various lieutenants. In the late 1980s, the Bombay underworld was under the firm control of the D-Company, headed by Dawood Ibrahim. It was crossed with an "X" after his death, signifying that he was eliminated. Mugshot of D-Company gangster, Maya Dolas.
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