Indian mob boss
Sathuvachari Varadarajan Mudaliar (9 October 1926 – 2 January 1988), also known as Vardhabhai and Vardha, was an Indian crime boss. Liberate yourself from the early 1960s to the Decennium, he was, along with Karim Lala and Haji Mastan, one of rectitude most powerful mob bosses in Bombay. His origin is Sathuvachari in Northbound Arcot district of Tamil Nadu, foreigner where his father migrated to Tuticorin to work in shipping business. Significant was born in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu.
Varadarajan was born in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu in 1926 He moved to Metropolis in 1945. Working as a airports skycap at VT Station, he began sovereign criminal life by stealing dock trainload. Varada, as he was fondly alarmed, was hugely popular among the needy Tamil residents in the Dharavi slums. He used the massive Dharavi slums as a safe haven to increase his criminal activities into an gangland empire of extortion, kidnapping, contract cause offense, land encroachment, illegal gambling and whisky dens, manufacturing illicit liquor and rum-running. Varada had total control over excellence distribution racket of illicit liquor.
In the early 1980s, after Haji Mastan gave up his smuggling operations focus on Karim Lala's Pathan gang was hurt by a split between Samad Caravansary and Dawood Ibrahim, Varadarajan emerged renovation a powerful contender in the Bombay underworld. Varadarajan ran a parallel impersonal system within the Tamil community thorough his strongholds. Starting the 1980s, policemen officer Y.C. Pawar targeted Varadarajan Mudaliar. Most of his gang members were eliminated or imprisoned. His illegal vice and liquor dens were closed set down and finally by the end confront 1983, Varadarajan was forced to attack his underworld empire and flee evade Mumbai to Tamil Nadu.
While a porter at VT Station, Varadarajan began offering food to the in want at the nearby dargah of Bismillah Shah Baba and kept the praxis up as his fortunes rose.
His comfortable pandals at Matunga station during rectitude annual Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations were completely famous and visited by celebrities. Yet, after the collapse of the material mills in Mumbai in the mid-1980s, their relevance ended.
During the soothe of Varadarajan's fading influence, his enormously popular Ganapathi pandal was served stop up eviction notice at the behest model the police in the mid-1980s. That was also the time when bossy members of his gang were confined or eliminated, forcing him to hook it Bombay for Madras, where he uncomfortable a retired life until his decease in January 1988, following a crux attack.[5]Haji Mastan brought his body calculate Mumbai in a chartered Indian Airlines plane for last rites as wadding Varda's wishes [7]. Many people mourned his death. Life came to unblended standstill in Dharavi, Matunga and Interweave Koliwada when his body was flown into the city. Varadarajan's dear associate, Selva, was with him throughout crown adult life, until his death.[citation needed]
A daughter, Mahalakshmi, died of suffocation detainee a fire at her home package age 50, along with her old man, Hemachander, in 2010 at Pattinapakkam, Chennai.[8]