Karim Lala was one of the most infamous characters in modern Mumbai and revealed the dark underbelly of the culture of crime that flourished in the city.
Shiv Sena motormouth Sanjay Raut has now issued clarification on his comments that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi used to come to Mumbai to meet underworld don Karim Lala.
Indira Gandhi and her government had gone out of the way to facilitate Sanjay's Maruti scam. At every stage, rules were bent, officials were threatened and coerced into catering to Sanjay Gandhi's whims.
Ram Krishna Dwivedi, a Congress veteran and Indira Gandhi's close aide, had defeated a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in a byelection from Maniram constituency of Gorakhpur in 1971.