Gangster on the Run by Puja Changoiwala
Storizen|September 2020
The True Story of a Reformed Criminal
Gangster on the Run by Puja Changoiwala

Rahul Jadhav took the name ‘Bhiku’ after a character from the 1998 cult classic Satya — a gangster who was everything Rahul once wanted to be. Capturing his don’s attention as a tech-literate criminal, running his extortion ring over Skype, Rahul found himself shouting threats down the barrel of his gun and became one of the most wanted gangsters of his time.

Puja Changoiwala is an award-winning journalist, and author of the critically acclaimed true crime book, The Front Page Murders: Inside the Serial Killings that Shocked India. As a journalist, Changoiwala writes about the intersections of gender, crime, social justice, human rights and technology. Her work has featured across the likes of BBC, CNN, The Hindu, The Guardian, MIT’s Undark, Al Jazeera, Stanford Social Innovation Review and The British Medical Journal, among other esteemed publications in Asia, UK, and North America.

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