Nettala Muthappa Rai (known as Muthappa Rai) (died 15 May 2020) was an underworld figure, Indian billionaire and businessman, and a social activist based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Nettala Muthappa Rai, Kannada Underworld Don
N Muthappa Rai: Kannada Underworld Don
Rai was born in Puttur, Karnataka, into a Tulu-speaking Bunt family of Nettala Narayana Rai and Susheela Rai. He was married to Rekha and has two sons. His wife Rekha died at Mt Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore in 2013. Rai made his appearance in a Tulu movie Kanchilda Baale in 2011.
Starting his career as a clerk in Vijaya Bank, Muthappa claimed to have accidentally turned to a life of crime in Bengaluru to protect his business - a bar and restaurant - from the onslaught of the underworld in 1980s. He is also the founder of Jaya Karnataka a not-for-profit organisation that aims at improving the quality of life of the people of Karnataka.
In the late 1980s, Rai came in contact with Bengaluru’s underworld and became an overnight sensation after he murdered the then don of Bengaluru, MP Jairaj, in broad daylight in 1990. That murder elevated him to the "post" of a mafia boss and he never looked back.
Muthappa Rai died of brain cancer at a private hospital in Bengaluru on 2020 May 15 Friday.
Source: wikipedia
