January 1, 1968 - Abu Salem
His rise through the D-Company criminal network brought him from driving contraband to orchestrating extortion campaigns against some of Bollywood's most prominent producers, with the violence escalating to assassination. The 1997 killing of music mogul Gulshan Kumar stands as the most documented consequence of his coercive grip on the film industry. Salem's case drew sustained international attention when he was eventually extradited to India from Portugal, raising legal questions about the terms under which extradited suspects can be prosecuted.
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Abu Salem ( AH-boo sah-LEM; born Abu Salem Abdul Qayoom Ansari), also known as Aqil Ahmed Azmi and Abu Samaan, is an Indian criminal gangster and terrorist from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, Central India. Abu Salem worked in the D-Company (Dawood Ibrahim gang) as a driver transporting artillery and contraband. Later he rose among the ranks after he introduced a new strategy of hiring unemployed youths from his hometown Azamgarh to come to Mumbai, execute shoot-outs and return the next day remaining untraced by the Mumbai police. He is currently serving a life sentence in India.
Salem is infamous for terrorizing the Bollywood film industry by extorting money from film producers and usurping the overseas distribution rights. It is believed that Salem was the mastermind behind threatening Bollywood film producers Gulshan Kumar, Subhash Ghai, Rajiv Rai and Rakesh Roshan. While his gang members assassinated Gulshan Kumar in 1997, they failed in their attempt to assassinate Rajiv Rai and Rakesh Roshan. He was also involved in several murders and extortion, among other crimes.
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