Charges : Murder cases , leader of an organized crime syndicate, Trial incomplete, released on bail in 2002.
Pappu Kalani 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 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 in the Maharashtra state assembly elections, 2004.
In February and April 1990, nephews of Gop Behrani, Ghanashyam and Inder Bhateja were shot dead, despite having been given state police protection.[9] Also shot dead in 1990 were gangster Anna Shetty, and rickshaw union leader and bodyguard of Rajwani, Maruti Jadhav,[5] both of whom were affiliated with the Gopal Rajwani gang. Jadhav in his dying declaration, as well as another person who was injured in the revolver attack, identified Pappu Kalani personally, and he would later be refused bail in this murder case.[10]
In 1990, when Pappu Kalani was formally named in some of these murders,[11] he was expelled from the Congress party.
In 1992, when the clean-imaged Sudhakarrao Naik took over as Chief Minister from Sharad Pawar, he launched a drive against criminal-politicians. Media pressure increased tremendously after the September 1992 shootout where Dawood Ibrahim's gang killed Shailesh Haldankar of the Arun Gawli gang as well as several on-duty policemen at Mumbai's JJ Hospital.[5] Thereafter, Pappu Kalani, along with Bhai Thakur, brother of politician-ganglord Hitendra Thakur, were arrested in November 1992, along with some others gangsters. Pappu was charged with the gang murders from 1990 and with the JJ Hospital shootout-ably executed by D-Company's Shyam Kishore Garikapatti alias "Black Scorpion"; a total of 19 cases were filed against him.[5] He was jailed under the repressive Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, which permitted imprisonment for "terrorists" even without trial. Several appeals against his incarceration failed – the court found him sufficiently implicated in the Maruti Jadhav murder to label him as a level "A" terrorist, and bail was repeatedly denied.[8][10] However, TADA laws were found inappropriate in some other charges – particularly for both the Bhateja murders,[9] and also in the JJ Hospital shootout case, which were transferred to a sessions court.[12] However, none of these cases progressed to trial. Altogether, he spent nine years in jail under TADA before being eventually released on bail in 2002.
At one point, Sudhakarrao made a statement that the state leader of Indian National Congress party and erstwhile Chief Minister Sharad Pawar, had asked him to "go easy on Pappu Kalani". At another time, Chief Minister Manohar Joshi of Shiv Sena announced his intention to prosecute criminal-politicians,but political realities ensured that nothing much was done.
Under Indian law, someone who has not been sentenced to more than two years for a crime cannot be considered guilty of a major crime and is free to fight elections. Thus, despite being in jail, Kalani kept fighting and winning the assembly seat from Ulhasnagar, partly because of the family's muscle, but also because in his first term, Kalani had worked to improve the roads and the water supply.
In 1999, when his mentor Sharad Pawar formed the National Congress Party, Pappu also joined it. However, mounting public pressure proved disruptive for the nascent party and he was forced to resign. At this time, he handed over the Municipal corporation to his wife Jyoti Kalani, who would also soon be arrested on charges of forgery, non-payment of revenue and illegal liquor manufacturing.

Rajwani murder :
Meanwhile, in January 2000, arch rival Gopal Rajwani was shot dead in a hail of bullets as he was coming out of a car at the magistrate's court to attend a case. It was widely believed that Pappu Kalani, at the time still in jail, may have masterminded it.
Immediately after his release from jail in 2001, several cases arose where he allegedly tried to intimidate one Bhoir family, part of whose land had been illegally encroached upon to build the Seema Holiday Home owned by the Kalanis, and also the shopowner Ramesh Rohra.
In 2004, Pappu Kalani again won the assembly elections, as a cand