SUPARI

About:

• Supari or the areca nut is more popularly known as the betel nut as it is used with betel leaves to make pan.
  
  
• However, over a period of times it has been used by the underworld to indicate a contract given to a person to kill someone else in exchange for money.
  
  
• Over the past few years, it has not been restricted to giving a contract to kill someone but also to damage the reputation of another person.
  
  
• One of the major supari killings was that of music baron Gulshan Kumar who had been shot dead on August 12, 1997 outside a temple in Andheri.
  
  
• As per police, the plot to bump him off was hatched in Dubai by Dawood’s brother Anees Ibrahim and Rs 25 lakh had been paid to the killers.