"Conversations With Dawood Ibrahim" continues...

Subhash Singh Thakur, originally from Village Nivada near Varanasi, was born in Bombay in 1960. His father ran a small dairy farm in Khar. A chance encounter with Kalya Anthony, a local goon, made him take to crime in 1981. He committed several murders for Kalya Anthony and became a dreaded gangster. In an encounter with Inspector Fateh Singh Gaekwad of the Mumbai Crime Branch, he shot at the police officer and was injured in the return fire. He
ran to a nearby cricket ground where Shyam Kishore Garikapatti was playing cricket. The
injured Subhash Singh was moved to hospital by Shyam Kishore and ever since then the two
became close friends and comrades-in-arms.

Subhash Thakur’s prowess as a ruthless killer soon attracted D-company’s attention which took him under its fold. He rose in the gang fast and became the key lieutenant of Sunil Sawant a.k.a. Sautya, Dawood’s ‘Defence Minister’ (Incharge of gang’s hit-men). Shyam Kishore, a Central Government employee’s son, on account of his proximity with Subhash Thakur, also became an indispensable member of D-company’s top ‘hit’ team.

Jayendra Thakur a.k.a. Bhai Thakur hailed from the Vasai-Virar area of Thane district bordering Bombay. A local thug, who held sway over Vasai-Virar region with his ruthlessness and daredevilry, was contacted by Dawood to provide protection to his gang’s consignments of
contraband when they landed at the nearby coastline. In April, 1991, a trawler carrying silver
ingots smuggled by D-company capsized in the shallow waters near a village called Wadrai in
the area under Bhai Thakur’s suzerainty. The local villagers looted the consignment when Dawood himself called Bhai Thakur to intervene and recover the robbed silver. The mobster unleashed nightlong terror in the village and beat up its residents mercilessly. He recovered the stolen silver to the last ingot but, in the bargain, three villagers lost their lives on account of the torture they received at Bhai Thakur’s hands.

To be continued...