Arun Gawli Biography, Age, History, Criminal activities and more (2024 Update)

Arun Gulab Gawli Biography of Arun Gulab Gawli also known as Arun Gulab Ahir, Arun Gawli is an Indian politician and former gangster. He is a native of Madhya Pradesh, his father settled in Dagdi Chawl, Mumbai in search of work, since then Arun Gawli and his family started living here.

Despite being a mafia, Arun Gawli is very popular among the people of Dagdi Chawl as they consider him their best friend. At present, he is in discussion about the film Daddy based on Gawli’s life.

Biography of Arun Gulab Gawli

Family Information of Arun Gawli

Arun Gawli was born in Kopar village in Ahmed Nagar district of Maharashtra. Gawli is married to Asha Gawli, a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. The couple has two children, a daughter named Geeta Gawli, who holds the position of ABS corporator in the Municipal Corporation of Chinchpokli assembly constituency. Has a son named Mahesh Gawli.

Arun Gawli is survived by his parents and a brother. His father’s name is Gulabrao, he used to work in Simplex Mill in Mumbai and mother’s name is Laxmibai and brother’s name is Bappa Gawli, Gawli’s brother died. Gawli’s nephew Sachin Ahir is the former home minister of the state as well as an MLA. Arun Gawli’s uncle Hukumchand Yadav is an MLA from Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh.

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Criminal activities

Gawli worked in Mumbai’s textile mills located in the central areas of Parel, Chinchpokli, Byculla and Cotton Green. In 1970, Gawli and his brother Kishore entered the Mumbai underworld. After this he joined the Byculla Company and started monitoring their illegal liquor business. This criminal gang operated between central Mumbai and Byculla under the leadership of Rama Naik and Babu Reshim.

From the 1970s to the 1980s, Gawli started engaging in activities such as raiding the textile mill industry in Mumbai to make quick money by collecting hafta. In 1984, Rama Naik helped Dawood Ibrahim kill his rival Samad Khan. From 1984 to 1988, the Byculla Company supported all the criminal activities of Dawood.

To avoid arrest by the police, Dawood had secretly settled in Dubai but his crime business continued in Mumbai. In 1988, there was a dispute between Rama Naik and Sharad Shetty over a land deal, in which Dawood supported Shetty. Because of this Rama Naik got angry and insulted Dawood. However, after the death of Rama Naik in a police encounter in 1998, Gawli took over the criminal gang and started operating it from his home.

A fierce battle later broke out between Gawli’s gang and Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company gang, as Gawli believed that Naik was killed at Dawood’s behest. Later many goons of Dawood’s D-Company like Sharad Shetty, Chhota Rajan and Sunil Sawant had to leave Mumbai and go to Dubai fearing Gawli’s gang. Arun Gawli handled the gang on the basis of Dagdi Chawal, on which the Mumbai Police raided several times and exposed this underworld Gawli gang.

Gawli was arrested several times for his criminal activities and detained several times during interrogation. Although in most of the cases, he used to survive even if the crime was not proved, because no one was ready to testify against him due to fear of him. In August 2012, the court convicted Gawli for the murder of Shiv Sena leader Kamlakar Jamshedkar. About 15 cases were registered against Gawli from 1986 to 2005, but the police have not been able to prove any crime till now.

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Political career

In the 1980s, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray criticized the Mumbai police when the police took action against goons like Arun Gawli and Sai Banod. This was an indication that Gawli enjoyed political patronage, although Gawli had parted ways with the Shiv Sena in the mid-1990s. After this he killed many people of Shiv Sena and later formed his own separate party. Gawli is the founder of the All India Army Political Party, a party in Maharashtra.

In 2004, Gawli contested from the Chinchpokli Legislative Assembly constituency and was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly as an All India Sena candidate. Gawli’s reputation grew rapidly thereafter, he is believed to have distinguished himself as a non-Marathi speaking leader by sticking to his native roots. Gawli suffered a major setback in politics when his nephew Sachin Ahir, who was also an All India Party MLA, openly turned against him and joined Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party. Sachin Ahir later contested the Lok Sabha elections against Gawli on a Nationalist Congress Party ticket. Both Sachin and Gawli were defeated in this election.

Arun Gawli controversy

• In 1986, the arrest in the murder case of Cobra gang criminals Parasnath Pandey and Shashi Rasham had been in controversy.
• Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh More and Balasaheb Thackeray’s confidants Jayant Jadhav and MLA Zoudin Bukhari were in controversy due to the murder of Gawli’s gang.
• In 2007, Shiv Sena Mayor of Gawli Municipal Corporation was involved in controversy for allegedly paying a betel nut to the murder of Kamlakar Jamsandekar.