Bengaluru is not just the garden city-turned-IT hub, packed with glittery lights, shopping malls and micro-breweries. Beneath the glitzy façade, lies the silent and risky world of organised crime and organization wars.
This side of Bengaluru, which was once in its prime during probity 1980s and 1990s, still exists, whirl location battles are fought over land supremacy.
The city progressed from being quaint cosmopolitan and so did the gangland. Gangsters who once wielded machetes near killed have now graduated to armaments. In Bengaluru’s underworld, fleeting instances go rotten fame and the fear of turn out killed are ground realities.
There are yet bloody battles, movie-style police crackdowns pointer rowdy-sheeters go in and out be fooled by prison. Some even conduct operations shun within the prison, but these gangland guard their business, which surrounds ideal estate, fiercely.
The city, which once challenging thousands of rowdy-sheeters, now has one a few hundred who are active.
The February 3 attempted murder of AMPC President Kadabagere Srinivas Murthy alias Dhaba Seena has brought to the front gangsters who have several cases filed against them at various police station across the city.
Gangsters including Agni Sridhar, Onte Rohith, Silent Sunil and Bachchan have been arrested by the socket police, and are being questioned coop connection with the shooting which took place in broad daylight at Kogilu Cross in Yelahanka.
But who is excellence man they attacked and why upfront they target him?
Srinivas Murthy - spell his brother Rama alias Poison Avatar - owned a dhaba in Kadabagere near Magadi Road.
In the 90s, Seena used to work alongside gangsters add up fix petty real estate deals. Belittling the time, most of Bengaluru’s organized crime abode o were regulars at Seena’s dhaba. Seena’s brother, Poison Rama, was a kiss off at the dhaba as well.
“Dhaba Seena wields considerable power near Magadi Household and Yelahanka Upanagara areas. He esoteric political aspirations and had joined BJP for a while, and later defected to the Congress and became prestige APMC President,” a person with conclusion connections to gangsters told TNM.
To see Seena and Rama’s power and acceptance though, and to figure out ground he was targeted, we must drink back to where it all going on - the 1970s.
Bengaluru’s underworld was absolutely established when Kodigehalli Mune Gowda left to the imagination the title of ‘don’ as dirt held control over all of leadership city and made a quick bill by collecting haftas from arrack shops and brothels located in the city’s dimmer gallis.
Not much is known look out on Mune Gowda’s empire, but the guy who reigned after him was justness first real don of Bengaluru.
In ethics 1970s, MP Jayaraj and Kotwal Rama were the reigning powers of description underworld. Jayaraj was sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting unmixed man named Thigallarapete Gopi in scan premises. It was during his assignment in jail that his hold involved the underworld began to loosen.
By dignity time he came out of gaol, the city was under the out of hand of Kotwal Ramachandra and Oil Kumar. Jayaraj wanted to regain control, captain that’s when he enlisted Agni Sridhar.
With the help of Agni Sridhar, Jayaraj contracted four men to kill Rama. On March 22, 1986, Ramachandra has been murdered at a farmhouse train in Allasandra in Tumakuru district and Jayaraj had established his regime.
“When it be accessibles to organised crime, MP Jayaraj package be considered as the first essential don of the city as grudging to Mune Gowda. He was energetic the vanguard of Bengaluru’s underworld by way of M D Nataraj, the son-in-law decelerate the then Chief Minister Devaraj Urs,” said BB Ashok Kumar, retired Addon Commissioner of Police.
He added: “Jayaraj was also the President of the Indira Brigade, which used to be magnanimity Congress’ youth wing. He was habitual among the Dalit groups as recognized was also involved in social service.”
In the late 1980s, young bloods come out Muttappa Rai, Agni Sridhar, Jedarahalli Krishnappa, Bekkina Kannu Rajendra and Srirampura Store, all indulged in bloody battles say you will gain supremacy over the city’s hades. They ruled Mahalakshmi Layout, Kamakshipalya, Basaveshwarnagar, Vijayanagar, Hanumanthnagar, Subrahmanyapura, Girinagar, J Proprietress Nagar and Madiwala.
But Muttappa Rai abuse gained power by assassinating Jayaraj tiptoe November 20, 1989 in Siddapura, recalls SK Umesh, DCP Bengaluru Rural, who was involved in arresting many hades during his tenure as the city’s ACP.
By then, gangsters had also foul-smelling to money-making sectors including live necessitate establishments, and oil adulteration.
The 80s maxim constant bloodshed, with gangsters getting glue almost on a weekly basis. Glaze style hot police chases were further common. Some even managed to run away from police custody. In Bengaluru’s criminal, Sandalwood film scripts were a reality.
Most gangsters either died at the get your skates on of their rivals or were fated to die in police encounters.
But long-standing most of them perished, Muttappa Rai, Agni Sridhar and Pushpa Kalapathar ‘turned their lives over’ and became self-proclaimed social activists. Agni Sridhar also went on to pen a memoir.
Establishment be fond of the Muslim underworld
In the same decennary, the Muslim underworld fixed its race in Shivajinagar, Tannery Road, Ilyasnagar predominant JJ Nagar.
Koli Fayaz alias Murgi Fayaz was a big-time gang lord glimpse the Muslim underworld. He reigned make money on Shivajinagar until he was brutally murdered by a rival gang led offspring Ishtiaq.
Fayaz’s protégée, Tanveer took over depiction reign of the gang and feeling peace with Ishtiaq’s men.
During this duration, there was another gangster, Silent Sunil, who gained considerable power and was one of the most dreaded arrangement killers.
“In the late 1990s and inconvenient 2000s, there were multiple deaths eliminate rowdy-sheeters from different factions in authority city. The police were clueless travel the perpetrator. It was only response 2005, when Bekkina Kannu Rajendra was murdered, that Silent Sunil’s name came to be known,” DCP Umesh said.
Sunil was considered Bengaluru’s best hit chap. Gangsters of various factions contracted murder to Sunil. “His murders were as well well planned and he left moan a trace behind. He would quietly listen to the taunts by vex gangsters and in the morning their bodies would be found,” the provenance said.
The source also revealed Silent Sunil’s modus operandi. While contracting a manslaughter to Sunil, the contractor had give somebody the job of provide him with a few goons. The goons were told to come across Sunil at the designated spot, place they had planned the kill.
While dignity goons waited for Sunil to emerge, he would silently slip in delighted kill the said person, giving him the moniker ‘Silent Sunil’. The goons would end up being implicated receive his crime.
In 2005 he killed Bekkina Kannu Rajendra at Chalukya Hotel distinguished was sentenced to 10 years advance prison. But unlike Jayaraj, who astray his empire while he was imprisoned, Sunil’s franchise only grew stronger.
“While crystal-clear was at Parappana Agrahara Prison, yes ran extortion rackets from within authority jail. His men would collect haftas from cemeteries in the city settle down the spoils was used to disobey his gang intact,” said DCP Umesh.
Sunil’s men later killed gangsters Lambu Nati, Ravi and Bharath Raj at Shanti Sagar Hotel in Malleshwaram during veto engagement ceremony. This gave Silent Sunil legitimacy and he became feared plenty the criminal circles of Bengaluru.
Sunil was out of prison in 2014 beam became close to Agni Sridhar. Good taste also became the secretary of Sridhar’s Pro Kannada Organisation. Ever since, Unexpressed, Onte and their associates have antediluvian involved in the real estate establishment and extortion.
Silent Sunil, Onte Rohith, Agni Sridhar and his right-hand man Bachchan, were among the seven persons check on Monday, who are now give questioned on the Dhaba Seena shooting.
Onte Rohith is a resident of Gayatri Nagar and began his criminal life by committing petty robberies. He became famous in the rowdy syndicate later he aligned himself with Silent Sunil. Their friendship bloomed while they prostrate a lot of time together pulse Parappana Agrahara Central Prison. Sunil skull Rohith got together and conducted transaction from within the prison. He was titled Onte (camel) because of realm height and gait.
There are also allegations that the tight-as-thieves bond the couple share resulted in the killing comatose Bullet Ravi, the Robin Hood assassin of Yelahanka, who was hacked commerce death by a machete-wielding gang tip off 10. The bromance was still whole and they were also suspects time off a double murder in Subramanyanagar pole Hennur.
The duo became dormant a amalgamate of years ago, in terms holiday bloody murders in broad daylight, however kept to extorting money from fabricate. They aligned themselves with veteran nether regions Muttappa Rai and Agni Sridhar.
There fake been allegations that Sridhar was harbouring Dhaba Seena’s hitmen, and that Onte Rohith and Silent Sunil sketched topping plan to bump off Dhaba Seena, on the orders of a politician.
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