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Monday, June 18, 2007

Mumbai mafia rides high on India property

Hitmen shooting police informers, mafia bosses collecting protection money from Bollywood actors and producers -- it could be a movie script. But the rise in criminal activity in India's financial hub is all too real and it has police and other officials worried that India's notorious mafia gangs have regrouped. Over a decade ago, police eradicated mafia gangs from Mumbai after a series of bombings in the city in 1993 -- blamed on the underworld -- killed 257 people.