It was crossed with an "X" after his death, signifying that he
was eliminated.
Maya Dolas ( ) (October 15 1966 – November 16 1991), born
Mahindra Dolas, was an Indian
underworld
gangster who used to work for the D-Company don, Dawood
Ibrahim. He was killed in an encounter at the 1991 Lokhandwala Complex
shootout with the then Additional Police Commissioner of Mumbai
, Aftab Ahmed Khan, at the age of
25.
Maya Dolas' story was made into a 2007 movie titled
Shootout at Lokhandwala, with
Vivek Oberoi playing the role of Maya,
and
Amrita Singh acting as his mother
Ratnaprabha Dolas.
Biography
Maya Dolas was born to Vithobha and Ratnaprabha Dolas. He was one
of their six children. Dolas joined the
Dawood Ibrahim gang in 1980s and rose quickly
through the ranks in the outfit.
He ran several successful extortion
rackets for the Indian National
Congress criminal - politician Ashok Joshi's gang at Kanjur village
, which was also affiliated with the Dawood Ibrahim's gang, D-Company. By 1989 however, he had fallen
out from the Ashok Joshi gang, and on
17
September 1989, Maya led a retaliation
against the Joshi gang, in which five people were killed.
It seems that at some point Maya Dolas had become too successful,
and he along with some others, primarily Hindu gangsters, fell out
with Dawood Ibrahim subsequently.
Education
Maya Dolas completed his education at I.T.I. (Not to be mistaken
with I.I.T.)
Chhota Rajan's claims
In an interview, gangster and don
Chhota
Rajan (for whom Maya Dolas worked) mentioned:
"I was in Dubai when Dawood Ibrahim planned the
operation as part of his campaign to cut me down to size. He had
eliminated several of my boys and Maya Dolas (who was gunned down
in the Lokhandwala shootout) was one of them," he claimed.
He said one Samir Shah, who worked for D Company had done the
ground level co-ordination for the operation. Maya Dolas had
expressed his willingness to surrender, but the police insisted on
eliminating him, Rajan added.
Shootout at Lokhandwala
The
Lokhandwala Complex is an upper
end middle-class housing area in Andheri
Lokhandwala
Swati A wing Flat no 002 and 003, Mumbai, where Shiv Sena criminal-politician Gopal Rajwani had purchased a flat for
mega-mobster Dawood Ibrahim.
In 1991, Dawood henchmen Maya Dolas and
Dilip
Buwa, along with four others, were in this apartment when they
were surrounded by the Mumbai Police led by Aftab Ahmed Khan; it
was later alleged that Khan had been tipped off by Dawood who
wanted the police to kill them.
The ensuing four hour shootout, much of it publicised live on news
channels, made Maya Dolas famous, and the police officer Khan a
household name.
After the encounter, it was alleged that the anti-terrorist squad
(
ATS) which had participated in the encounter
had made off with Rs. 70
lakh
(Rs. 7 million) cash which was with Maya Dolas. A number
of inquiries conducted by the Mumbai police failed to turn up any
concrete evidence.
Maya's mother Ratnaprabha had moved court to ban the movie
Shootout at Lokhandwala stating that the movie presents
her son falsely. For example, the movie shows that Maya had killed
his abusive father at age nine, whereas his father outlived Maya
and died only in 1997. She also claimed that he was an ITI passout
(Trained industrial technician). Taking note of the fact that the
movie also portrays Ratnaprabha as encouraging the criminal
tendencies in her son, the suit wanted the producer to re-do the
film.
Chhota Rajan also objected to the
film, saying that it "grossly distorts the facts". In response, A A
Khan, the cop who led up front the team which gunned down Maya
Dolas, rubbished Rajan's claim, saying that the operation was
videographed and it was conducted in full view of the public.
The directors claim that the movie is highly fictionalised,
although it uses the real names, and the movie opens with an
apology to the real characters. A Mumbai sessions court refused to
stay the film release based on the case in May 2007.
References
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/TOIonline/India/Chhota_Rajan_takes_potshots_at_film/articleshow/2063105.cms