Politics and Jail
Gawli married Asha Gawli, popularly referred as "Mummy" and has two children. Gawli's political designs suffered a major blow when his nephew and party legislator, Sachin Ahir, came out openly against him and joined Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party. He even contested against Gawli in the subsequent Lok Sabha elections on a Nationalist Congress Party ticket, resulting in defeat for them both, but victory for the Shiv Sena's sitting MP Mohan Rawle. His daughter was recently elected as a corporator to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
Gawli has been acquitted in most of his cases in which he was charged with exception of murder case of Shiv Sena leader Kamalakar Jamsandekar. On 31st August 2012 Gawli and eleven others were found guilty of Jamsandekar's murder.
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