Mumbai Bookie Murder

• Honey trap may have led bookie to his death

  Police investigating the murder of top bookie Rajesh Kukreja suspect that a bar dancer may have lured the deceased to Duru Bar, Ulhasnagar, on Sunday, the night he was murdered. While checking Kukreja's mobile phone, police have come across a call made by Seema, a bar-dancer, on the day of the murder. Moreover, Seema has been missing since two days...

• Man killed at dance bar in Mumbai

  In a bar brawl that turned ugly, 32-year-old Rajesh Shyamlal Kukreja, a well-known bookie was stabbed to death in a dance bar at Ulhasnagar. According to the police, an altercation with three patrons in the bar was the reason behind the murder. The police have arrested a former Shiv Sena corporator and an MNS worker in connection with the killing, ...

• Small-time model may have been behind Viveka Babajee's suicide

  Cops now have reason to believe that late international model Viveka Babajee, who took her own life in 2010, may have been driven to suicide over Simrin Sud's growing closeness to her then boyfriend, financial stockbroker and socialite Gautam Vora. Police sources suspect that Simrin, an accused in the murder of bookie and film producer Karan Kakkad...

• Probe against cops investigating film producer's murder

  Amboli police officers may soon have some explaining to do. The deputy commissioner of police (Zone IX) yesterday ordered an enquiry against them to determine if they were negligent in their investigations of Karan Kakkad's murder case.

• Mystery politician helped bookies fix cricket matches

  A shocking revelation made by the accused Vijay Palande in the sensational Karan Kakkad murder case points to a mystery politician, who was liaising with the two in a match-fixing racket. According to anonymous police sources, the relationship shared by Kakkad and Palande turned sour when the two turned from being co-partners in the racket to compe...

• Chembur no longer haven for bookies

  Just a month after Vinod Asrani alias Vinod Chembur was arrested in connection with MiD DAY journalist J Dey's murder, cops have launched a drive to nab bookies in the area.

• Bookie to real estate tycoon, courtesy Rajan

  Vinod Goverhandas Asrani is not new to the underworld or its operations, and neither is he unacquainted with incarceration. It is not surprising, then, that Asrani is a man of many names, with Vinod Bookie, Vinod Chembur and Vinod Sindhi being just a few of his aliases. Being based in Chhota Rajan's bastion of Chembur gave the small-time booki...