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The former underworld don Muthappa Rai, 68, who had become a social activist in recent years, passed away in the early hours of Friday.
He suffered from cancer and was hospitalized for the past few days. He had recently held a press conference where he spoke about his poor health and described himself as “a dying man”.
Starting his career as an employee at Vijaya Bank, Muthappa claimed to have accidentally resorted to a criminal life in Bangalore to protect his business, a bar and restaurant, from the onslaught of the underworld in the 1980s. Credited as the mastermind behind the then-murder Reigning city don MP Jayaraj, he constantly rose up in the underworld and was once linked to Dawood Ibrahim.
He was attacked when he appeared in a city court in 1994, but he survived and fled to Dubai in 1996. Although he was later aided by Dawood Ibrahim, he slowly gravitated towards the “Hindu faction” and reportedly aided the security agencies Indian women to fight Dawood’s Ibrahim faction, intelligence sources said.
He was arrested and extradited to Bangalore by Dubai authorities in 2002, where he was tried in a total of eight cases, including the 2001 murder of the builder Subbaraju. However, he was eventually acquitted of all charges for lack of evidence.
In 2008 Muthappa announced that he was turning a new sheet and started the Kannada organization “Jaya Karnataka”. Living in a heavily guarded palatial house in Bidadi, Muthappa described himself as a businessman involved in real estate. He was elected president of the Karnataka Athletics Association in 2018. There has been no case against him for alleging criminal activity since he returned to India extradited from Dubai in 2002. Although there were reports of his enthusiasm for entering the political fray , never materialized.
He is survived by his wife and two children. The last rites will take place at his residence in Bidadi on Friday afternoon. Due to restrictions imposed to reduce the spread of COVID-19, only your family members will participate.
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