Karim Lala | |
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کریم لالا | |
Born | Abdul Karim Sher Khan 1911 |
Died | 19 February 2002 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | (aged 90–91)
Other names | Bade Baba |
Occupation(s) | Smuggling, narcotics, extortion, contract killing, illegal gambling, forced property evictions[citation needed] |
Karim Lala (1911 – 19 February 2002), born Abdul Karim Sher Khan in the Samalam Village of the Shegal District of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, was infamous as one of the three "mafia dons of Mumbai" in India for more than two decades from the sixties to the early eighties,[1] the other two being Mastan Mirza aka Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar.[2][3]