Last Updated: October 27, 2023, 17:22 IST
Facing a number of legal circumstances, Arun Gawli is at the moment out of jail on parole. (Credits: IANS)
Arun Gawli used Dagdi Chawl as his crime den within the Eighties and ’90s. It was a time when the notorious Don Dawood Ibrahim was at his peak
Mumbai’s Dagdi Chawl, which famously hosted former underworld don Arun Gawli, is all set to be redeveloped and changed by two 40-storied skyscrapers within the subsequent few years.
As per studies, the 386 tenants of Dagdi Chawl will begin transferring out of the 4000 sq. meter plot in a phased method. The 4-storey buildings will be demolished to make manner for 2 40-storey buildings, one of which can be reoffered to the tenants.
Arun Gawli, who’s serving a life time period for the homicide of a Shiv Sena corporator, carried out Navratri Aarti at his stronghold Dagdi Chawl, figuring out it might be his final Navratri on the precinct he as soon as dominated.
Why Was Dagdi Chawl Famous?
Dagdi Chawls, surrounded by swanky buildings within the Agripada space of south Mumbai, as soon as offered a secure hideout to Arun Gawli who was at loggerheads with the Dawood Ibrahim and Ashwin Naik gangs.
Before Dagdi Chawl grew to become Gawli’s fortress, it served as residential quarters for mill staff and their households. On one of the highest flooring of buildings within the chawl, Gawli and his household used to reside an expensive life.
The space, now a century previous and unfold in additional than an acre, grew to become one of probably the most doubtful addresses in Mumbai within the Eighties when Gawli started his tryst with the underworld. With the underworld lengthy gone in Mumbai, the previous society will make for the skyscrapers to home the town’s new highly effective class.
Currently, there are round 375 tenants within the rooms measuring simply 120 sq. toes every, housing over 1,000 individuals, with many households having spent three generations within the chawls, from beginning to demise.
As per the proposal, taken up by little-known Livingstones Infra Private Limited, two an identical towers of round 40 flooring every will come up. While one of the skyscrapers will go to the present tenants, one other one will be provided to open market sale.
Who is Arun Gawli?
Arun Gawli alias Daddy used Dagdi Chawl as his crime den within the Eighties and ’90s. It was a time when the notorious Don Dawood Ibrahim was on the peak of his crime historical past.
Gawli grew to become a rival to Dawood Ibrahim when he declined to be a part of his smuggling enterprise. He then used Dagdi Chawl because the headquarters of the BRA (Babu Reshim, Rama Naik and Arun Gawli) gang. Ibrahim even tried to vanquish Gawli, however in useless.
“While Dawood killed Gawli’s brother and Gawli retaliated by carrying out a hit job on Dawood’s brother-in-law Ibrahim Parkar, he would always retreat into the safety of Dagdi Chawl where no one could enter without his permission,” Sunil Deshmukh, former Assistant Commissioner of police, mentioned, in accordance to Hindustan Times.
According to a report in Midday, Lalvitanchi Chawl in Byculla West used to be the centre of the crime world earlier than Dagdi. Lalvitanchi Chawl used to home a number of gangsters like Chota Rajan. Arun Gawli additionally used to go to the chawl and that’s the place he bought the concept of utilizing Dagdi Chawl as his fortress.
Gawli made an entry into politics with out a lot success. But he enjoys appreciable assist in central Mumbai. Late Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray publicly hailed him as a ‘Hindu Don’.
Gawli is at the moment serving a life sentence on the Central jail in Nagpur within the 2007 homicide case of Mumbai Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar.
