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Ganga Harjeevan AKA Gangubai Kothewali, also known as Gangubai Kathiawadi, was an Indian mafia woman and madam of a brothel at Kamathipura situated in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was sold into prostitution at a very young age. When she was 16 years old, she fell in love with her father's accountant and ran away with him to Bombay. Later her husband, Ramnik Lal, betrayed her by selling her for Rs 500 at a brothel.
As a prostitute Gangubai was raped savagely by a member of Karim Lala's gang. After pleading for justice to Karim Lala, not only did he provided her justice but made her his mouth- spoken sister as well.
Soon after this, Karim Lala gave the command of Kamathipura area to his Rakhi sister Gangubai and she became one of the ‘Mafia Queens.’ However, Gangubai never kept a girl in the brothel against her consent instead she dedicated her life for the betterment of sex-works and orphans. In 2008, at the age of 69, Gangubai Kathiawadi died in her house in Kamathipura due to cardiac arrest.
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