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'''Amar Naik''' was an Indian gangster.<ref name="h559">{{cite book | last1=McGuire | first1=John | last2=Copland | first2=Ian | title=Hindu Nationalism and Governance | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=2007 | isbn=978-0-19-567922-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kzOKAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2025-11-25 | page=72}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Naik started his criminal career in 1980.<ref name="z946">{{cite book | title=Resource Material Series | publisher=UNAFEI | date=1999 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4K8EAQAAIAAJ | access-date=2025-11-25 | page=96}}</ref> There were around 200 criminals in his gang.<ref name="c802">{{cite book | last1=Heinzelmann | first1=Claudia | last2=Marks | first2=Erich | title=International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 12: Contributions from the 13th Annual International Forum 2019 and 14th Annual International Forum 2021 within the German Prevention Congress | date=2023-06-08 | isbn=978-3-96410-032-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJ_EEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA136 | access-date=2025-11-25 | page=136 | publisher=BoD – Books on Demand }}</ref><br />
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He had assassinated industrialist [[Sunit Khatau]].<ref name="k116">{{cite book | title=India Today International | publisher=Living Media India Limited | date=2000 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hdsVAQAAMAAJ | access-date=2025-11-25 | page=35}}</ref> A personal diary of Naik contained the names and telephone numbers of a number of police officers. Some of these reported instances of a nexus between leading politicians and the underworld were provided in newspapers.<ref name="t657">{{cite book | last=Singh | first=Nirmal Kumar | title=The Politics of Crime and Corruption: A Former CBI Officer Speaks | publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India | date=1999 | isbn=978-81-7223-344-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BRuAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2025-11-25 | page=50}}</ref><br />
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Investigators found Naik had visited the US, Canada, Australia and other countries. His bank accounts having more than Rs. 5 lakh were frozen. After 8 months on 10 August, 1996, he was killed in an [[Encounter killing|encounter]] by [[Vijay Salaskar]].<ref name="f517">{{cite book | last=Dey | first=J. | title=Khallaas - an A to Z Guide to the Underworld | publisher=Jaico Publishing House | date=2008-01-01 | isbn=978-81-7992-850-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0EhtJUvOInsC&pg=PT14 | access-date=2025-11-25 | page=14}}</ref><ref name="b385">{{cite book | last1=Sarat | first1=Austin | last2=Boulanger | first2=Christian | title=The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives | publisher=Stanford University Press | date=2005-05-27 | isbn=978-0-8047-5234-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=STRDug6vtJAC&pg=PA216 | access-date=2025-11-25 | page=216}}</ref><ref name="r791">{{cite web | last=Parmar | first=Baljeet | title=Don's daughter is all set for takeoff today | website=DNA India | date=2007-12-17 | url=https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-don-s-daughter-is-all-set-for-takeoff-today-1139814 | access-date=2025-11-25}}</ref><br />
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Patronized by [[Shiv Sena]], his encounter was condemned by Shiv Sena's newspaper ''[[Saamana]]'' as "selective killing of Hindu and Marathi mafia dons".<ref name="f518">{{cite book | last1=Sekher | first1=Madhushree | last2=Parasuraman | first2=S. | last3=Kattumuri | first3=Ruth | title=Governance and Governed: Multi-Country Perspectives on State, Society and Development | publisher=[[Springer Publishing]]| date=2018-01-08 | isbn=978-981-10-5963-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7wdGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA242 | access-date=2025-11-26 | page=242}}</ref> After his death, his gang was overtaken by his brother Ashwin Naik.<ref name="g825">{{cite book | last=Zaidi | first=S. Hussain | title=The Dangerous Dozen: Hitmen of the Mumbai Underworld | publisher=Simon and Schuster | date=2024-07-26 | isbn=978-81-972789-2-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrIUEQAAQBAJ&pg=PT131 | access-date=2025-11-26 | page=131}}</ref><br />
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==In popular culture==<br />
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In 2021, Bollywood movie ''[[Mumbai Saga]]'' based on Naik's life was released.<ref name="y634">{{cite web | last=Entertainment | first=Quint | title=Bombay HC Refuses to Stay Release of John Abraham's 'Mumbai Saga' | website=TheQuint | date=2021-03-19 | url=https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/bollywood/bombay-hc-refuses-to-stay-release-of-john-abrahams-mumbai-saga | access-date=2025-11-25}}</ref><br />
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