So Bal Thackeray slept for decades, and suddenly one day decided to wake up and see what's happening around him in his own home (state/kingdom)? And conveniently almost all the mafia bosses managed to escape the police? (And those mafia bosses have been remotely controlling the underworld since then, and have become even more deadlier and wealthier.)

Those orders to cleanup Mumbai (shoot at sight orders -- see Ab Tak Chappan movie)came from the Centre, as many bigwigs complained about the extortions by the Maharashtra mafia. The 1990s serial blasts (masterminded by D-company, but aided by powerful local elite), the brutal daylight assassination of Gulshan Kumar and the shooting at Rakesh & Hrithik Roshan (their drivet/bodyguard died in the shootout, and Rakesh was hurt) were the bug deal-breakers, as ordinary citizens started questioning what the heck was police and government doing.

So the authorities did an eyewash cleanse of the lower rung criminals, all the major criminals escaped, and mafia world continued as usual, but more discreetly.

The SSR case revealed how powerful and deep the nexus still runs between Bollywood, underworld and politicians. NIA will be able to achieve nothing even if BJP was ruling the state.