He went on to study hotel management at Sapphire’s College. The boy was sent to Bharda School on at Napean Sea Road, and to Lala Lajpat Rai College. Shetty’s father owned a hotel called Rishi, near CST (then Victoria Terminus), and the family lived in a bungalow at Warden Road. Cops who have followed his career say Dawood smuggled for money, Shetty, for money and some excitement. Like Dawood Ibrahim from not too far in Nagpada, Shetty dabbled in gold smuggling in the mid 1980s, when he was barely 20. Now 48, Shetty started young in crime, which is another surprise considering his affluent south Mumbai upbringing.
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His background worked in his favour… the underworld, full of slumdog millionaires, saw him as “khandaani” boy who became one of their own.
Anna, as he is known, comes from a business family based in south Mumbai. Unlike most underworld dons, Santosh Shetty was not a rags-to-riches story. The man who saved Rajan’s life, then turned against him He used to constantly demand mandrax in custody, if not given he would get violent, and bang his head against the wall,” said an officer from the Anti-Extortion Cell. We had major problems when he was arrested in 1993 for drug possession. We hope nothing happens to him while in custody. We will have a tough time looking after him. He falls sick if he does not get the drug. Shetty is a drug addict who develops severe withdrawal symptoms, if not supplied with his daily dose of drugs. While Shetty’s arrest may be a matter of great glee for the Crime Branch, the team which has Shetty’s custody is a worried lot. “While Shetty’s interrogation will throw up a lot of information on underworld activities overseas, it will also be a message to all dons in foreign countries that they are not safe.” “This is a big catch for us, strategically and symbolically,” said Roy. And it was to announce their newfound gang that they bumped off Shahid Azmi and then Farid Tanashah. They then teamed up with gangster Bharat Nepali to cobble up their own gang. The two fell apart with Rajan around 2008 over a financial dispute. And then, who knows, Shetty might even have managed to flee.” If and when we’d get him, the extradition would come with many riders like in the case of gangster Abu Salem who was extradited from Portugal. “Had he been arrested there on her complaint, it could’ve taken us years to get him to India. His girlfriend’s complaint, however, queered the pitch for us,” the officer told Mumbai Mirror. We had an arrangement with the Thai authorities that they would detain Shetty based on our information, and hand him over to us. She wanted this so that India would not be able to get Shetty deported and would be forced to go through a tedious, time-consuming process of extradition.
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The complaint ensured that Shetty would be arrested by the Bangkok police, and would have to stand trial in Thailand. This created a problem for us,” said the officer. “She lodged a false complaint against Shetty, accusing him of cheating her of US$ 5 million. The moment the Bangkok police detained Shetty, she lodged a complaint against him. “His Thai girlfriend almost thwarted our efforts to get him to India,” said an officer who was part of the team which brought Shetty back to the country.