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'''Kotwal Ramachandra''' was one of the underworld [[Crime boss|dons]] of [[Bangalore]] in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name=dna1>{{cite news|title=The rise of Muslim underworld in Bangalore|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report-the-rise-of-muslim-underworld-in-bangalore-1495471|accessdate=9 March 2014|newspaper=DNA India|date=17 January 2011}}</ref> He covered Bengaluru North and operated from Kodandarampura/ Srirampura areas. He was a contemporary of his rival [[M.P.Jayaraj]]. There was a power struggle between the two as to who would rule the [[Bangalore]] underworld under the cloud of the new generation crime boss [[Oil Kumar]], but M.P.Jayaraj was successful in bumping off Kotwal Ramachandra with the help of [[Agni Shridhar]], Bachchan and Varadharaja Nayak. Kotwal Ramachandra was from [[Shimoga]] and worked in the Indian Navy for a brief while. He was a well-built man, over 6 feet tall, and used knives and sickles as his weapons. He was backed by some politicians in his heyday. He was killed on 22 March 1986 by a four-member goonda team, supported by Jayaraj.<ref name=man>{{cite news|last=Sebastian|first=Selvin|title=The Man Who Saw Too Much|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/The-Man-Who-Saw-Too-Much/2014/03/09/article2095686.ece#.UxwY0j-Syp4|accessdate=9 March 2014|newspaper=The New Indian Express|date=8 March 2014}}</ref><ref name=paul>{{cite news|last=Dharmaraj|first=Paul|title=Books : Interview: Agni Sreedhar|url=http://www.timeoutbengaluru.net/books/features/interview-agni-sreedhar|accessdate=9 March 2014|newspaper=Timeoutbengaluru.net|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140309073055/http://www.timeoutbengaluru.net/books/features/interview-agni-sreedhar|archivedate=9 March 2014}}</ref> He was killed in a farm house near Allalasandra, [[Tumkur]] and his death was not known to outside world even after a month.<ref name="Agni Sreedhar. Chapter 3">Agni Sreedhar. Chapter 3</ref> He believed in many superstitions even through his prime time.<br />
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In his stressful and crucial days, he was known to carry out random attacks of innocents in public in order to invoke fear that not only led him to develop more unwanted enemies but alleviate the situations but not his market value as he assumed.<br />
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He had several associates who continued rowdy activity in Bangalore even after his death.<ref>{{cite news|title=Srirampura Kitty killed in savage attack|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/03/21/stories/2005032115560300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801194615/http://www.hindu.com/2005/03/21/stories/2005032115560300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 August 2008|accessdate=9 March 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=21 March 2005}}</ref><br />
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==Political links==<br />
Kotwal Ramachandra gained access to political circles when he started working as driver and body guard to then Chief Minister of [[Karnataka]], [[D. Devaraj Urs]].<ref name=riti>{{cite news|last=Riti|first=M D|title=All the CM's Men|url=http://in.rediff.com/news/2001/aug/14diary.htm|accessdate=9 March 2014|newspaper=rediff.com}}</ref><ref name=surya>{{cite book|last=Anand|first=A|title=Surya India|date=1992|publisher=Surya India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=13lDAAAAYAAJ&q=kotwal+ramachandra}}</ref> He even threatened [[Ramakrishna Hegde]], another Chief Minister of Karnataka with a knife in open house which was photographed by press.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}. Towards his ending days, he was also accused of barging into the CM's daughters Beauty Parlour in Sadashivanagar to threaten after which the tight vigil and search forced him to exit Bengaluru and seek shelter in the Tumakuru farmhouse leading to the events of his death.<br />
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===In popular culture===<br />
A motion picture in Kannada, [[Aa Dinagalu]], directed by K M Chaitanya [[Agni Shridhar|Agni Sreedhar]], prominently depicts the rise and murder of Kotwal Ramachandra. Agni Sreedhar has written an autobiography, ''My Days in the Underworld-Rise of Bangalore Mafia'' (Westland, 2013), in which the murder of Kotwal Ramachandra has been highlighted.<ref name=khajane>{{cite news|last=Khajane|first=Muralidhara|title=The gangs of Bangalore|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/the-gangs-of-bangalore/article5448980.ece|accessdate=9 March 2014|newspaper=The Hindu|date=12 December 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Murder trail==<br />
M.P. Jayaraj, another notorious Don, helped the four killers who murdered Kotwal Ramachandra and disposed bones of Kotwal in Bay of Bengal and arranged to bury bones of dogs pretending it to be of Kotwal, with an intention to mislead the investigation and release the killers.<ref name="Agni Sreedhar. Chapter 3"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
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*{{cite book|last=Sreedhar|first=Agni|title=MY DAYS IN THE UNDERWORLD RISE OF THE BANGALORE MAFIA<br />
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