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Name  Karim Lala
Siblings  Rahim Khan

Karim Lala Three underworld dons who rode Bombay from the 60s to

Born  1911 (age 90–91) , Afghanistan
Occupation  Smuggler, Celebrity, Business Man
Similar People  Varadarajan Mudaliar, Haji Mastan, Bada Rajan, Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar, Maya Dolas
Died  19 February 2002 (aged 90–91) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Karim lala


Karim Lala (1911 – February 19, 2002), born as Abdul Karim Sher Khan in Kunar Province of Afghanistan, was self-proclaimed 'don of Mumbai' in India. He is recognized as the founder of the major organised criminal gang in the Mumbai area in the 1950's. He went to work in Mumbai’s docks in the early 1940s via Peshawar, but he rose to prominence, along with Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar. Karim Lala and his fellow Mafia leaders were based in Mumbai.

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They were involved in Smuggling jewellery, running gambling and liquor dens, extortion rackets and selling Hashish. Karim Lala was an ethnic Pashtun, he died on February 19, 2002, at the age of 90.

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