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BLOODY YEARS
 1974:
Dawood, son of a Konkani Muslim police constable, commits his first crime.
Small fry. Haji Mastan, Karim Lala and Varadaraja Mudaliar rule supreme.
1984:
Post-Emergency war of Dawood and Pathans. Dawood has Samad Khan, Lala's
nephew, shot. Rama Naik and Bada Rajan (Chhota's guru) killed as well.
1988:
Varadaraja has retired, other rivals dead. Dawood is top don. Rules
over Rs 1,500 cr empire. Arun Gawli sole challenger.
1989:
Dawood tries to semi-legitimise empire by investing in South Africa
and west Asia through BCCI. Bank later collapses.
1991:
Targeted by the Mumbai Police, Dawood has fled to Dubai. Assisted by Chhota
Rajan and Anna Shetty he maintains a great social profile. Flourishes.
 1992:
The Babri Masjid demolition divides the Mumbai underworld along religious
lines. Riots in Mumbai. Dawood is under community pressure to "act".
1993:
Dawood executes bomb blasts in Mumbai. Rajan charges Dawood with communalism
and leaves him. The war begins.
Rajan vows
to kill bomb blast guilty. Goes after them. Today, of the 17 murder charges
he faces, 12 are of bomb blast conspirators.
1995:
Rajan men Sanjay Raggad, Diwakar Churi and Jukar killed in Nepal.
Rajan retaliates by killing Shabbir of the D Company.
1999:
Gangland alliances change. Abu Salem leaves Dubai and goes solo. Working
out of Africa, he retains contact with Dawood.
Rajan flees
Dubai for Kuala Lumpur after Dawood tells Sawtya Sawant to kill him. Later
Sawant is killed, angering Dawood.
 2000:
Dawood sends killers to Bangkok to get Rajan after trying to split his
rival's gang. Rajan escapes yet again. The war of the dons continues.
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