In Mumbai, the figure of Muslim gangster combines many of the moral ambiguities and the opacity of the metropolis, with allegations of the loyalty to Pakistan. The dreaded figure of the Muslim gangster don’t had been built up in the popular press for the decades and in 1998 the police launched a sustained offensive against the under world. In the following years, hundreds of alleged gangsters, or what the police called “notorious characters” perished in nocturnal shoot-puts and encounters (Hansen 2001b, 185-93).