Suresh Budharmal Kalani, known popularly as Pappu Kalani[a] (born c. 1951)[2] is an Indian criminal-politician from Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra.
After emerging as the leader of an organized crime syndicate in the 1980s,[3] he was elected president of the Ulhasnagar municipal council in 1986. He was elected to Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha in 1990 elections as Indian National Congress candidate from Ulhasnagar constituency. He won 1995 and 1999 assembly elections as Independent.[4] He won two elections in the period 1992–2001 when he was in jail on murder charges. He was elected the MLA from Ulhasnagar again in 2004 as a member of the Republican Party of India (Athawale).
Kalani is currently on bail in 19 cases including eight of murder.[5] He served a life sentence on 3 December 2013 in a 23-yr-old murder case of Ghanashyam Bhatija. Ghanashyam Bhatija was murdered on 27 February 1990 near the Pinto Resorts in Ulhasnagar of Thane district. His brother Inder Bhatija, who had seen the murder, was also shot dead on 27 April 1999 despite having police protection.[6]
^"Suresh (Pappu) Budharmal". Archived from the original on 2 May 2005.
^"Pappu Kalani was only 35 years old when he was elected president of the Ulhasnagar municipal council in 1986."
^Girish Kuber (9 January 2007). "Pappu's Ulhasnagar gambit may backfire". The Economic Times. Retrieved 24 May 2007. Suresh "Pappu" Kalani: a man who is seen as the personification of this lawlessness in (Ulhasnagar)
^"Elections results Analysis 1078–2004". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
^Dionne Bunsha (17 December 2004). "The States: Dons in a new role". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 24 May 2007.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^"Pappu Kalani, 3 others get life sentence in 23-yr-old murder case". The Indian Express. Press Trust of India. 3 December 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
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