He was also involved in narcotics trafficking, as he saw that the profits derived from it were considerable. Surve's criminal activities were not confined to heists and robberies. Īnother famous robbery undertaken by Surve's group included Rs 1.6 lakh from Canara Bank's branch on Sion-Trombay road and Duke and Sons Company at Deonar. The stolen vehicle was later found abandoned near National College in Bandra, exactly as penned in the Chase novel. The group, with the addition of Dayanand, Parshuram Katkar, and Kishore Sawant, stole a car near Badal Bijlee Barkha in Mahim and went on to execute a heist of Rs 1.26 lakh near Govandi. īorrowing the plot from a James Hadley Chase novel, which he had read in prison, Surve decided to loot money from the government milk scheme in a bid to gain money as well as recognition from the Mumbai underworld. On 30 April, they stabbed a police constable when he was escorting rival Vijay Ghadge to a police station in Dadar. On 15 April, Surve and his associates brutally assaulted and nearly killed Sheikh Aziz, an enemy of Sheikh Munir, near Kala Killa in the Dharavi slum. The vehicle was later used to loot Rs 5,700 from the Laxmi Trading Company near Currey Road. The group's first robbery took place on 5 April 1980, in which they stole an Ambassador car. They were soon joined by another gangster, Uday Shetty, in March 1980. Mumbai underworld Īfter he returned to Mumbai, Surve formed another outfit and recruited his two trusted lieutenants, Sheikh Munir from Dharavi and Vishnu Patil from Dombivli. Surve utilized this opportunity to escape on 14 November 1979 and returned to the streets of Mumbai, having served over nine years of his sentence. There, he took part in a hunger strike and lost almost 20 kg before being transferred to the local civil hospital. Annoyed by Surve's terror tactics, the prison authorities had him transferred to Ratnagiri jail. While incarcerated at the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune, Surve developed a fierce rivalry with gangster Suhas ("Potya Bhai") Bhatkar. Dabholkar and sentenced to life imprisonment. The trio were soon caught by Police Inspector E. In 1969, Surve, Dada and associate Manya Podhkar were all charged in the homicide and gang assault of a man named Dandekar. Dada was a feared criminal from Agar Bazar in Dadar. During these years, he was introduced to his best friend and associate Sumesh Desai through his stepbrother Bhargav Dada. He then fell into street life, eventually forming a crew consisting of former classmates.
Doongursee College, Mumbai, achieving a high score of 78%. He was a Chemistry graduate from Kirti M. For years, he lived in different chawls in Elphinstone Road and Lower Parel. Surve moved to Bombay with his mother and stepfather in 1952. The village is now a part of Ratnagiri Taluka, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra, India. Manohar Arjun Surve was born in 1944 in the village of Ranpar in the Konkan region, located in the Central Deccan Division of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, British Indian Empire. Surve was killed in 1982 by the Maharashtra police which is regarded as Mumbai's first encounter killing. Bhide, was put in charge of taking down Surve. Inspectors Isaque Bagwan and Raja Tambhat, with Senior Inspector Y. Meanwhile, local law enforcement was preparing operations to reduce persistent mob violence with an onslaught of targeted assassinations. Within just two years of activity, his crew rose to such prominence that the Pathans, who had ruled the underworld for over two decades, sought his help in murdering the Konkani-speaking Kaskar brothers, Dawood and Shabbir, the leaders of their archrival gang, D-Company.įollowing the murder of Shabir Ibrahim, Surve's fellow accomplices began to fall off one by one. As a young man and graduate of Kirti College, Surve was implicated in a murder that he did not commit and was sentenced to imprisonment in Yerwada Jail. Surve was known for his daredevilry and strategic planning. He was one of the educated gangsters who graduated from college and very well known for challenging and defeating existing Gangs. Manohar Arjun Surve (8 August 1944 – 11 January 1982), popularly known as Manya Surve, was an Indian Underworld Don in Bombay. Ranpar, Bombay Presidency, British India (present day Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India)
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