Basiran, alias Mammi, also called "Godmother of crime", and her sons face 113 cases for murder, contract killing, excise violation and other crimes.
A 62-year-old woman who ran an illicit liquor and water mafia along with her eight sons, including a minor, in Sangam Vihar of South Delhi was arrested by the South district police on Friday.
Basiran, alias Mammi, also called "Godmother of crime", and her sons face 113 cases for murder, contract killing, excise violation and other crimes. Her eldest son Shamim, alias Gunga has been charged under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.
"A strong legal check of this family syndicate had led to decrease in crimes in Sangam Vihar. She was in the list of top five dreaded female criminals in Delhi," Romil Baaniya, deputy commissioner of police, South.
The "Godmother" entered the world of crime 16 years ago through illicit liquor business. Originally from Rajasthan, she married Malkhan, a goat grazer who refused to be a part of her crime world and stayed away.
The couple initially resided in Navjeevan camp in Govindpuri area before moving to Sangam Vihar that shares the border with Faridabad and also has a wooded stretch in the vicinity, said the police. The porous border helped her illegal liquor business. Slowly, she engaged her sons in it.
According to the police, Basiran took a backseat in 2014 and asked her sons to take over. The family had taken over government borewells in the area and had started charging anything between Rs 100 and Rs 200 locals in case they wanted water. Their fear was so much that nobody complained against them.
Basiram had been arrested at least eight times and was last in police custody in 2016. "She was absconding since last eight months and was hiding at Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Mainpuri and Firozabad," said DCP Baaniya.
Her name cropped up during an investigation into a murder when the accused told the police that they had killed a man, identified as Miraz, at the behest of Basiran. She was declared a proclaimed offender in May 2018 and her house in 'I' block from where she operated was also sealed.
Since the house was close to the jungle, the police said, it was easy for the family to dispose of Miraz's body. An officer said the family would threaten people claiming they had buried many bodies there.
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