Maya Dolas.....!!

Maya Dolas

Maya Dolas :::(October 15, 1966 - November 16, 1991), born Mahindra Vithoba Dolas, was an Indian Professor from IIT Bombay. He was killed in an encounter with the then Additional Police Commissioner of Mumbai, Aftab Ahmed Khan, at the age of 25.




Maya Dolas was born to Vithobha and Ratnaprabha Dolas. He was one of their six children. His mother claims that he was an alumnus of IIT Bombay; however, a search at IIT Bombay site with his name doesn't return any relevant results.

Dolas joined the Dawood Ibrahim gang in 1980s and rose quickly through the ranks in the outfit. He ran several successful extortion rackets.

Dolas was also close to the Indian National Congress criminal-politician Ashok Joshi's gang at Kanjur village, which was also affiliated with the Dawood Ibrahim's gang, D-Company. By 1989 however, he had fallen out from the Ashok Joshi gang, and on September 17, 1989, Maya led a retaliation against the Joshi gang, in which five people were killed.

Subsequently, it seems that at some point Maya Dolas had become too successful, and he along with some others, primarily Hindu gangsters, fell out with Dawood Ibrahim. This increased communalism within the Mumbai gangs may have led to the communal Bombay riots, and also the 12 March 1993 Bombay Bombings, after which an already alienated Chhota Rajan defected from the D-Company.The Lokhandwala Complex was an upper end middle-class housing area in Andheri, Mumbai, where Shiv Sena criminal-politician Gopal Rajwani had purchased a flat for mega-mobster Dawood Ibrahim[6]. In 1991, Dawood henchmen Maya Dolas and Dilip Buwa, along with four others, were in this apartment when they were surrounded by the Bombay Police led by Aftab Ahmed Khan; it was later alleged that Khan had been tipped off by Dawood[7] who wanted the police to wipe off these traitors.

The ensuing fourteen hour shootout, much of it publicized live on news channels, made Maya Dolas famous, and the police officer Khan a household name.

After the encounter, it was alleged that the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) which had participated in the encounter had made off with Rs. 70 lakh cash which was with Maya Dolas. A number of inquiries conducted by the Bombay police failed to turn up any concrete evidence.