Abu Salem worked in the D-Company as a driver transporting artillery and contraband.
35 Facts About Abu Salem
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Abu Salem is currently serving a life sentence in India.
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Abu Salem was involved in several murders and extortion, among other crimes.
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Abu Salem was later arrested in 2002 in Portugal on charges of using a fake passport and extradited to India.
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Abu Salem was tried and convicted in some cases and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015.
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Abu Salem was born in 1969 into a lower-middle-class family in Sarai Mir village of Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh.
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Abu Salem was the second youngest amongst four brothers, though some reports maintain that he was the eldest of four brothers.
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Abu Salem's father was a lawyer by profession who was killed in a road accident.
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Abu Salem started a small mechanic shop in his home town to support his family.
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Abu Salem studied in a primary school in Azamgarh and left the village after completing his inter college.
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Abu Salem moved to Delhi, where he worked as a taxi driver.
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Abu Salem worked as a bread delivery boy between Bandra and Andheri and worked at a garment shop in Andheri West in 1986.
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Abu Salem loved film and reportedly named his sons after Bollywood actors.
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Later Abu Salem started a travel agency at Santa Cruz with J K Ibrahim who worked for the Dawood gang.
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From 1989 to 1993, Abu Salem worked as a driver for the D-Company and he delivered weapons, illegal cash and goods to different gang members in Bombay.
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Abu Salem had a business establishment there called Kings of Car Trading.
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Abu Salem successfully introduced a new strategy of hiring unemployed Muslim youths from his hometown Azamgarh to come to Mumbai, carry off the shooting and return to Azamgarh the next day.
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Soon Abu Salem got the support of Anees Ibrahim and he rose to prominence within the gang.
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Abu Salem was involved in extorting from the Hindi film industry, channelling illicit money into film production, forcibly getting the dates of stars, and usurping overseas rights.
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Abu Salem first worked under Chhota Shakeel but later split and took to threatening film personalities for extortion.
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Abu Salem is believed to be the mastermind behind the murder of music baron Gulshan Kumar on 12 August 1997 without Dawood's consent.
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Abu Salem finally parted ways with Dawood after being sidelined in 1998.
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In July 2002, two shooters of Abu Salem's gang opened fire on film director Lawrence D'souza who survived.
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Abu Salem attempted to kill cine figures Rajiv Rai, Rakesh Roshan and Manmohan Shetty.
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Abu Salem was convicted for the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case, and murder of music baron Gulshan Kumar in 1996, shooting at Indian actress Manisha's secretary, murdering a property builder and more than 50 other cases.
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On 27 June 2013, Abu Salem was shot by Devendra Jagtap, an accused person in the Shahid Azmi murder case inside Taloja Central Jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, the police said.
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Abu Salem sustained injury to his hand as Jagtap fired one round.
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Abu Salem was convicted in Pradeep Jain murder case on 16 February 2015.
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Abu Salem was sentenced life imprisonment in Pradeep Jain murder case on 25 February 2015.
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In 2002, Abu Salem called Gupta asking him to call a number in Dubai.
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In 2024, Abu Salem was represented by advocate Yatish Dilip Desale in the Mumbai serial bomb blast at the Delhi supreme court, India.
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Abu Salem is said to be a billionaire gangster worth Rs.
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Abu Salem possessed a non-immigrant work visa in the US, where he was employed as a maintenance manager for a marine engineering company.
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Abu Salem married Samira Jumani, a 17-year-old college girl, in 1991 with whom he has a son.
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Post Abu Salem's arrest in Portugal, she told interviewers that he was a "violent psychotic man" and she was forced into marriage.