Ravi Pujari

Sketch of Pujari

Ravi Pujari is an Indian gangster.^[1] He started his criminal career at Andheri, Mumbai. He is a school dropout, but speaks English, Kannada , Hindi and Tulu. He was a small-time criminal till he killed Bala Zalte, a rival. He joined gangster Chota Rajan who took a liking to him.

He moved to Dubai in the late 1990s and extorted from builders and hoteliers. They parted ways after Dawood Ibrahim made an attempt on Rajan’s life in Bangkok, Thailand in 2000.

In the mid-1990s, three of his men shot Om Prakash Kukreja of Kukreja builders in his Chembur office. Eight years later, a Navi Mumbai builder, Suresh Wadhwa, escaped an assassination attempt by ducking under his office desk.

Pujari is believed to be hiding in Australia now. He often calls up the police claiming to have targeted people close to Dawood or his aide Chhota Shakeel. On 13 February 2016 over the controversy of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) anti-India protests, Ravi Pujari threatened to eliminate hardliner Hurriyat faction Syed Ali Geelani.^[2]

Although less is known about Pujari's family, it has been heard that, one of his brothers is a doctor and runs a laboratory in western Maharashtra

Threat to Bollywood actors

After threatening many Bollywood's actors like Salman Khan, Akshay kumar, Karan Johar & Rakesh Roshan his latest target is Shahrukh Khan on the overseas rights of film Happy New Year (2014 film) and Arijit Singh's with 5,00,00,000 rupees or two show in free of cost^[3] also.He also threatens him on keeping relations with Karim Morani^[4]

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