Fighting the Dhanbad mafia - Life and death of Gurudas Chatterjee

Authors
Roy, AK
Citation
Ak. Roy, Fighting the Dhanbad mafia - Life and death of Gurudas Chatterjee, ECON POLIT, 35(20), 2000, pp. 1701-1703
Categorie Soggetti
Politucal Science & public Administration
Journal title
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY
ISSN journal
00129976 → ACNP
Volume
35
Issue
20
Year of publication
2000
Pages
1701 - 1703
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-9976(20000513)35:20<1701:FTDM-L>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Frustrated with the ineffectiveness, and worse, of govemment agencies, Guru das Chatterjee started intervening directly in the affairs of the mafia by rousing the people against them. He stopped illegal coal trading and got tw o top mafia leaders arrested. This was too much and a plot was hatched from the jail itself. Gurudas could be neither bought nor cowed down. So he had to be removed. And removed he was. On G T Road on April 14 the sun set at 3 pm.