Thread by @19SunSunny

12 bombs blasts that shook Bombay in 1993, had involved the collaboration of a criminal gangs, police & politicians

A commission under N.N.Vohra were institutes to investigate nexus

The report found involvement of politicians with gangsters that it was barred from publication

Report contained several imp observations by top agency official on the criminal network which was virtually running a parallel government

It also discussed criminal gangs who enjoyed the patronage of politicians, and the protection of government functionaries.

It revealed that political leaders had become the leaders of gangs. Over the years criminals had been elected to local bodies, State Assemblies and Parliament.

The unpublished annexures of Vohra Report were believed to contain highly explosive materials.

In the first meeting of the Committee (held on 15th July ‘93), Mr.Vohra explained to the Members that Government had established the Committee after seeing the reports of our Intelligence and Investigation agencies on the activities/linkages of the Dawood..

Ibrahim gang, consequent to bomb blasts in March 1993." In the bigger cities, the main source of income relates to real estate - forcibly occupying lands/buildings, procuring such properties at cheap rates by forcing out the existing occupants/tenants..

Over time, the money power thus acquired is used for building up contacts wid bureaucrats and politicians and expansion of activities with impunity.

The money power is used to develop a network of muscle-power which is also used by the politicians during elections."

Then Director CBI had observed that there are many such cases, as that of [mafia boss Iqbal] MIRCHI where the initial failure has led to the emergence of Mafia giants who have become too big to be tackled."

Like the Director CBI, the Dir.IB has also stated there has been a rapid spread and growth of criminal gangs, armed senas, drug Mafias, smuggling gangs, drug peddlers and economic lobbies in the country which have, over the years, developed an extensive network ..

of contacts with the Government functionaries at the local levels, politicians, media persons and strategically located individuals in the non-State sector. Some of these Syndicates also have international linkages, including the foreign intelligence agencies."

The various crime Syndicates /Mafia organisations have developed significant muscle, money power and established linkages wid governmental functionaries, political leaders and others to be able to operate with impunity”

the various agencies presently in the field take care to essentially focus on their respective charter of duties, dealing wid infringement of laws relating to thr organisations & consciously putting aside any information on linkages which they may come across”

Senior intelligence agency officials, who had followed Ibrahim, said that the findings of the N.N. Vohra Committee report were “very explosive” as it had found out and named senior politicians and bureaucrats working for Dawood.

Now let the people decide who dey are...

From 1995 to 1999 Gopinath jj Munde den Dy.CM & Home Minister wiped out underworld from Mumbai. Encounter of many dreaded criminals. His statement " if gangsters fires on police den police will also fire in self defence".

As regards d Report Hon.SC observed "Criminalisation of politics was never an unknown phenomenon in the Indian political system, but its presence was seemingly felt in its strongest form during the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts ..

which was the result of a collaboration of a diffused network of criminal gangs, police and customs officials and their political patrons," said the five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra.

"The tremors of said attacks ..

shook the entire Nation and as a result of the outcry, a commission was constituted to study the problem of criminalisation of politics and the nexus among criminals, politicians and bureaucrats," said the bench, also comprising Justices Nariman, Khanwilkar, Chandrachud, Malhotra