New Delhi. Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria has made several sensational revelations in his autobiography ‘Let Me Say It Now’ (Westland). Because he faced the underworld don without fear. Maria told that Dubai don Abu Salem had threatened to attack Gulshan Kumar, after which all the people associated with T-Series were stirred. After this threat, security was provided to Gulshan Kumar, but then the security was relaxed, because then Mumbai Police and UP Police were deployed for his security.
Gulshan Kumar murdered due to laxity of UP Police
Actually, at that time Gulshan Kumar’s cassette factory was located in Delhi NCR Noida. This was the reason that the UP Police was deployed in his protection. But Gulshan Kumar was shot on 12 August 1997. Maria writes in her autobiography ‘Let Me Say It Now’, “The truth was that the late Yash Chopra, Ramesh Sippy, Mahesh Sippy, Mahesh Bhatt, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Manmohan Shetty And others took their decision without any fear and proved to be the real heroes, who paved the way for the film industry to show how to deal with organized crime syndicates.” About the murder of Javed Riaz Siddiqui, Maria writes, “A Producer , which wanted success, who announced the film with Mithun Chakraborty, Vinod Khanna and Raj Babbar. She was pressured by Abu Salem to cast Pakistani actress Anita Ayub. He was asked to pay a signing amount of Rs 1 lakh.
The director was pressurized to cast Pakistani actress Anita Ayub
Siddiqui knew that casting Anita Ayub was not commercially sound. After that he started looking for another actress and even tried to get back the signing amount. When Abu Salem came to know about this, he was furious and threatened Siddiqui with dire consequences. Killed and killed. Maria wrote that not only property, financial and civil disputes were being settled by the underworld, but Dawood Ibrahim’s hegemony was such that even the smallest things in Bollywood were decided from him. Maria wrote Told, “There was a dispute between the two production houses regarding the release of the film. The decision of this dispute was taken by Dawood Ibrahim sitting in Dubai.” On another occasion, the superstar of Bollywood went to Dubai to perform on Hero Dawood’s birthday. When he returned to Mumbai, he was picked up at gunpoint by the Arun Gawli gang from Film City. Maria writes that Gawli’s pompous Navratri celebrations were going on at the time and the dancing superstar was picked up in it.