'''Arun Gulab Gawli''' <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYwwDwAAQBAJ&q=Arun+gawli++ahir&pg=PA116|title= Social Dynamics of the Urban: Studies from India|first1= N. |last1= Jayaram|date= 2017 |publisher= Indian Institute of Advanced Study|isbn= 9788132237419|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cK_dCQAAQBAJ&q=Arun+gawli++ahir&pg=PT20|title= Once was Bombay|first1= Pinki |last1= Virani |date= 2017 |publisher= Indian Institute of Advanced Study|isbn= 9789352140749|via=Google Books}}</ref>(born 17 July 1955)<ref>{{Cite web|last1=डिजाईन|first1=Ankitaअंकिता दीपावली की|last2=है{{!}}|first2=डेवलपमेंट और आर्टिकल के सर्च इंजन की विशेषग्य है{{!}} ये इस साईट की एडमिन है{{!}} इनको वेबसाइट ऑप्टिमाइज़ और कभी कभी आर्टिकल लिखना पसंद|date=2017-09-03|title=अरुण गवली का जीवन परिचय {{!}} Arun Gawli Biography in hindi|url=https://www.deepawali.co.in/arun-gawli-biography-hindi-%e0%a4%85%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%81%e0%a4%a3-%e0%a4%97%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80.html|access-date=2020-08-30|website=Deepawali|language=en-US}}</ref> also known as '''Arun Gulab rajputAhir''', is an Indian politician, underworld don<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsAqSYZx6gEC&q=Arun+gawli++mumbai+don&pg=PA243 |title= Policing the Police 2 Edition |first1= Praveen |last1= Kumar |page= 243 |publisher= Indian Police service |via= Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5AMa5Q3JFOsC&q=Arun+gawli++mumbai+don&pg=PA337 |title= Inside India |page=337 |publisher= Publish America |isbn= 9781607499145 |via= Google Books}}</ref> and retired gangster.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Arun-Gawli-get-life-term-in-corporator-murder-case/Article1-922231.aspx |title= Arun Gawli get life term in corporator murder case - Hindustan Times |access-date=2013-02-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120902210250/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Arun-Gawli-get-life-term-in-corporator-murder-case/Article1-922231.aspx |archive-date=2012-09-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mid-day.com/news/2012/aug/310812-Arun-Gawli-gets-life-for-corporator-murder.htm|title=Arun Gawli gets life for corporator's murder|work=mid-day.com|access-date=2 December 2016}}</ref> Gawli and his brother Kishor (Pappa) entered the [[Organised crime in India#Mumbai underworld|Mumbai underworld]] in the 1970s, when they joined the "Byculla Company", a criminal gang led by Rama Naik and Babu Reshim, operating in the central [[Mumbai]] areas of [[Byculla]], [[Parel]] and Saat Rasta. In 1988, after Rama Naik was killed in a police encounter, Gawli took over the gang and began operating it from his residence, [[Dagdi Chawl]]. Under his control, the gang controlled most criminal activities in the central Mumbai areas. Throughout the late eighties and nineties, Gawli's gang was involved in a power struggle with [[Dawood Ibrahim]]'s [[D-Company]] gang. Gawli is also the founder of the [[Akhil Bharatiya Sena]] political party based in Maharashtra.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-06/mumbai/33648743_1_arun-gawli-dagdi-chawl-akhil-bharatiya-sena | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130711063158/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-06/mumbai/33648743_1_arun-gawli-dagdi-chawl-akhil-bharatiya-sena | url-status=dead | archive-date=2013-07-11 | work=[[The Times of India]] | title='Arun Gawli's party front for crime' | date=2012-09-06}}</ref>
