Ravi Pujari

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Ravi Pujari is an Indian gangster Underworld don who currently resides in Australia.[1] He started his criminal career at Andheri, Mumbai. He is a school dropout and was a small-time criminal till he killed Bala Zalte, a rival. He joined gangster Chota Rajan who took a liking to him.

He moved to Dubai in the late 1990s and extorted from real estate builders. They parted ways after Dawood Ibrahim made an attempt on Rajan’s life in Bangkok, Thailand in 2000.

In the mid-1990s, three of his men shot Om Prakash Kukreja of Kukreja builders in his Chembur office. Eight years later, a Navi Mumbai builder, Suresh Wadhwa, escaped an assassination attempt by ducking under his office desk.

As per the Sydney Morning Herald, Pujari is believed to be hiding in Australia now and has an Australian passport. He often calls up the police claiming to have targeted people close to Dawood or his aide Chhota Shakeel. On 13 February 2016 over the controversy of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) protests, Ravi Pujari threatened to eliminate hardliner Hurriyat faction Syed Ali Shah Geelani.[2]..

Threats to critics of the Modi government and Indian activists

In 2017 and 2018, various activists in India including students and MLAs filed police complaints that they were receiving death threats from Ravi Pujari, now in Australia.[3] He had threatened them to stop opposing the Modi government, else they would be killed.[4]

Threat to Bollywood actors

From 2009 to 2013, Pujari threatened many Bollywood actors like Salman Khan, Akshay kumar, Karan Johar, Rakesh Roshan and Shahrukh Khan. Ravi Pujari threatened Shah Rukh Khan for his relationship with Karim Morani who is a friend and business partner of Shah Rukh Khan.[5] [6]

References

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  1. ↑ "Mumbai gang war comes to Bangalore - The Times of India". TNN. 12 July 2009. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Bilal Bashir Bhat (13 February 2016). "Underworld don threatens to kill Syed Ali Geelani - Only Kashmir". Only Kashmir. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Koutsoukis, Jason (20 June 2014). "Indian 'don' Ravi Pujari may be running racket from Australia, police say". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Ravi Pujari telephones MLA from Australia seeking financial help". The Hindu. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Shah Rukh khan threatened by gangster Ravi Pujari, security tightened". IndiaTV. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  6. ↑ Isha Sharma (17 August 2015). "Gangster Ravi Pujari's Funny Barter With Arijit Singh. Sing Songs For Me Or Pay Rs 5 Crore". IndiaTimes. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
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