religion children birth_date spouse article_title name occupation
hindu 3 7 august 1951 jyoti kalani pappu kalani
 pappu kalani -lrb- vishal songire ambhaiker -rrb- politician and illegal gang leader
pappu kalani

pappu kalani -lrb- born 1951 -rrb- is an indian criminal-politician from ulhasnagar .
after emerging as the leader of an organized crime syndicate in the 1980s , he won elections for the maharashtra legislative assembly in 1986 with the indian national congress party .
he won 1990 elections as indian national congress , 1995 , 1999 elections as independent and has been elected continuously from this seat since then , including two elections in the period 1992 -- 2001 when he was in jail on murder charges .
his formal name is suresh budharmal kalani and pappu may be a nickname , though he prefers it as part of the formal name , writing suresh -lrb- pappu -rrb- budharmal kalani in his election papers .
pappu kalani is how he is inevitably referred to , however .
he is currently on bail in 19 cases including eight of murder and was most recently elected the mla for ulhasnagar from the republican party of india -lrb- athavale -rrb- in the maharashtra state assembly elections , 2004 .
pappu kalani was served a life sentence on december 3 , 2013 in a 23-yr-old murder case of ghanashyam bhatija .
ghanashyam bhatija was murdered on february 27 , 1990 near the pinto resorts in ulhasnagar of thane district .
his brother inder bhatija , who had seen the murder , was also shot dead on april 27 , 1999 despite having police protection .
