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Pappu Kalani (born 1951) is an Indian criminal-politician from Ulhasnagar. After emerging as the leader of an organized crime syndicate in the 1980s,〔Quote: Suresh "Pappu" Kalani: a man who is seen as the personification of this lawlessness in (Ulhasnagar)〕 he won elections for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 1986 with the Indian National Congress party,. He won 1990 elections as Indian National Congress, 1995, 1999 elections as Independent〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/AE/S13/partycomp55.htm )〕 and has been elected continuously from this seat since then, including two elections in the period 1992–2001 when he was in jail on murder charges. His formal name is Suresh Budharmal Kalani and Pappu may be a nickname, though he prefers it as part of the formal name, writing Suresh (Pappu) Budharmal Kalani in his election papers.〔(/55/Suresh(Pappu)BudharmalKalani/Suresh(Pappu)BudharmalKalani.htm Suresh (Pappu) Budharmal Kalani's electoral declaration in 2004 )〕 Pappu Kalani is how he is inevitably referred to, however. He is currently on bail in 19 cases including eight of murder〔 〕 and was most recently elected the MLA for Ulhasnagar from the Republican Party of India (Athavale) in the Maharashtra state assembly elections, 2004. Pappu Kalani was served a life sentence on December 3, 2013 in a 23-yr-old murder case of Ghanashyam Bhatija. Ghanashyam Bhatija was murdered on February 27, 1990 near the Pinto Resorts in Ulhasnagar of Thane district. His brother Inder Bhatija, who had seen the murder, was also shot dead on April 27, 1999 despite having police protection. ==Life and career== Born into a wealthy familly Pappu Kalani's uncle Dunichand Kalani was the president of the local unit of Indian National Congress. The family ran a liquor business and owned a number of distilleries and hotels.〔 Pappu Kalani is quoted as saying: ‘‘There is no politician in India who has contested twofjhfgygjyyd elections from jail and has won both. I am among the very few persons in the country with eight TADA cases registered against me’’〕 In the 1970s, Ulhasnagar was a booming lawless town settled by entrepreneurial refugees who had emigrated from Sindh, Pakistan after the Partition of India in 1947. Sharp business practices (Ulhasnagar was known for its "duplicate"s or forged goods) combined with illegal construction and unauthorised industrial units made for an atmosphere where "protection" emerged as a profitable business.〔 A number of gangs were soon working under the patronage of political parties. Pappu Kalani's uncle Keemat Kalani, also affiliated with the Congress party, ran the gang headed by Chiman Tejwani,〔 while the opposing parties, under politician Gop Behrani, employed the gang of Govind Vachani and Gopal Rajwani. It is reported that both gangs were connected to the Dawood Ibrahim gang. Use was also made of the media, and hush money were regularly paid to journalists.〔 〕 In 1983, Gopal Rajwani was for a while aligned with Pappu Kalani, and they executed the brutal knife murder of the editor A V Narayan of Blitz magazine.〔〔 〕 Rajwani was arrested for this, but he was eventually acquitted due to lack of witnesses and shoddy prosecution. Nothing came out of this dastardly murder however as the Indian press never stood up against this criminal. In 1986, Pappu Kalani was elected president of the Ulhasnagar Municipal Council (UMC), and the same year, he was chosen by the Indian National Congress party as its candidate for the state legislature from Ulhasnagar, and easily won the seat.〔 Meanwhile Gopal Rajwani and Pappu had fallen out over the division of extortion money. In April 1985, Rajwani was arrested in an extortion case, apparently at Kalani's bidding. As Rajwani was being escorted to the police station in a rickshaw, Kalani arranged for his men to attack him with bombs and guns.〔 Rajwani survived the attack and eventually relocated to Dubai, with the help of Haji Mastan, a notorious smuggler and senior don of that time. In April 1989, Pappu's uncle Dudhichand Kalani was murdered, allegedly by the Govind Vachani / Gopal Rajwani gang,〔 The prosecution case presented at the start of this judgement details clearly the story of the long-standing rivalry between the Gopal Rajwani and Pappu Kalani gangs. Then it discusses in detail the special TADA court judgement refusing to transfer the case to an ordinary sessions court (as opposed to a terrorist court) arguing that the use of an illegal firearm, and also the fact that ''prima facie'', Pappu Kalani was identified by two witnesses (including a dying declaration) using the firearm to execute a murder (based on spent cartridges), is sufficient at least to proceed for trial under TADA.〕 at the instance of Gop Behrani.〔 This led to reprisal killings – as many as 22 murders in five months. It was said during this period that "there would be a killing in Ulhasnagar every Tuesday."〔 It was during this period that Pappu Kalani emerged as the leader of his own organized crime gang. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pappu Kalani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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