A Few More Businessmen Who Were Killed
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A FEW MORE BUSINESSMEN WHO WERE KILLED... Liquor baron Ponty Chadha who was killed during a shootout with his brother, Hardeep, is not the first Indian businessman who met with a violent end. There are many who lost their lives following disputes over property or underworld connections Sunit Khatau, Chairman, Khatau Mills Shot dead in May 1994 in Mahalaxmi by the Amar Naik gang following a dispute over the sale of his mill land in Central Mumbai. The mill land sale was stopped immediately by the state government. The land was recently sold to a private builder Thakiyudeen Wahid Gulshan Kumar Chairman, East West Airlines Chairman of T-Series Shot dead in 1996 just Founder of T-Series, Kumar metres away from his was shot dead near a Bandra office. The Chota temple in Andheri in August Rajan gang took 1997 by gangsters. Police responsibility for suspected music composer the killing, as he Nadeem of paying money suspected Wahid to Abu Salem to kill Kumar. to be close to the rival Dawood One of the shooters, Rauf Ibrahim gang. His airline folded Raja, has been convicted of shop soon after the crimes while Nadeem is now living in exile in Vallabhbhai Thakkar London. Kumar's son, Chairman, Raghuvanshi Mills Bhushan Was shot dead in 1997. Gangsters Kumar, now were demanding money from runs Super Thakkar for helping him to evict Cassettes some tenants. Thakkar's close Industries associate and a prominet builder, Manish Shah, was killed soon after. After redevelopment, Raghuvanshi Mills is now one of Mumbai's prime office property.