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Rai brought gun culture to Bangalore.
: It is Muthappa Rai who introduced Mumbai's gun culture and organised crime to Bangalore, and his deportation to India is set to alter equations in the local underworld, say both police and underworld sources.
Bangalore's nascent underworld was innocent of gun culture, extortion rackets and land shark deals till Rai entered the scene in the late eighties.
"He taught them to bring in supari killers and sophisticated weapons. Till then, the underworld was restricted to the chaku-churi culture," a police officer familiar with Rai's way of handling things said.
"In the good old days, if a rowdy wanted to eliminate his rival, he gathered support from friends and settled scores by attacking with knives and matchetes. Rai taught us the easier way of pumping bullets using hired men from Mumbai and other parts of the country," a former rowdy now leading a reformed life said.
To buttress his argument, he cites the M.P. Jairaj, Oil Kumar, Seena and Subbaraju murders. All four were shot dead by hired men and Rai is the suspect.
According to police officers keenly watching developments in the city's underworld, after news of Rai's homecoming flashed in, ...
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