Bengaluru: Karnataka's most feared and reformed underworld mafia don N. Muthappa Rai died of cancer at a private hospital early Friday. Security has been beefed up around the hospital and additional police personnel have been deployed to maintain order and prevent crowding by hundreds of his followers and fans amid the coronavirus lockdown.
Rai (68) has been battling brain cancer for over a year, admitted at the super-specialty Manipal Hospital in the city in this week and was on ventilator since Wednesday. He was born at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district into a Tulu-speaking Bunt's family, Rai took to organized crime at a young age and came in contact with the notorious underworld Dawood Ibrahim in then Bombay.
Rai has acted in two films over the time, "Kanchilda Baale" and "Katari Veera Surasundarangi". After got bail from prison he reformed to serve the people through a charitable organisation called 'Jaya Karnataka'.
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