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Harish Tolar first staked his claim to fame by bashing up boys who misbehaved with girls in his college. MiD DAY brings you the lowdown on the 'mafioso' the police shot at and captured yesterday

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Harish Tolar first staked his claim to fame by bashing up boys who misbehaved with girls in his college. MiD DAY brings you the lowdown on the 'mafioso' the police shot at and captured yesterday

Harish Tolar, don Ravi Poojari's right-hand man whom the police captured yesterday, had nursed ambitions of being a rowdy since his college days.

Team effort: Police inspect the encounter spot, near Jnanabharati.

Santhosh Kumara Shetty, who studied arts with Harish at St Aloysius College in Mangalore, said Tola as he was nicknamed in college was fascinated by rowdies and underworld dons even then. Tola means wolf.
Tolar hails from a well-to-do family, which owned a transport company, Shetty told MiD DAY.

The first time

Tolar shot to fame when he hit Pandu Pai and Chimney Santu, henchmen of Mumbai don Sadu Shetty, on the college premises. Tolar was 20 then, and still in college.

The provocation was Chimney misbehaving with girls in the college canteen while on his way to a court nearby. Tolar hit him and the policemen escorting Chimney had to separate the two.

Pandu Pai came to the college later to attack Tolar but was thrashed instead.

A file photo of Harish Tolar

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