Delhi: Underworld don Chhota Rajan, who’s incarcerated in Tihar Jail, has been admitted to AIIMS Delhi right this moment (January 10). Rajan was admitted to the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences Delhi (AIIMS) for medical remedy.
Chhota Rajan will get life time period in 2001 homicide of hotelier
In Could 2024, a particular court docket in Mumbai sentenced gangster Chhota Rajan to life imprisonment within the homicide of hotelier Jaya Shetty in 2001, over six years after he was handed the same sentence within the killing of journalist J Dey.
Particular decide for instances below the Maharashtra Management Of Organised Crime Act, AM Patil, held Rajan responsible below Indian Penal Code sections 302 (homicide), 120B (legal conspiracy) and provisions of MCOCA.
Following the conviction, the court docket sentenced the gangster, at present lodged at Tihar jail in Delhi, to rigorous imprisonment for all times and imposed a superb of Rs 16 lakh on him.
Rajan, whose actual title is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, was arrested by the Indonesian police in October 2015 earlier than his extradition from Bali to India. The gangster had spent almost three a long time on the run earlier than his arrest and was believed to have been a former right-hand man of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
After Thursday’s judgment, Rajan has been convicted in seven instances, together with six within the metropolis, particular public prosecutor (SPP) Pradeep Gharat mentioned. A particular MCOCA court docket in 2018 had sentenced Rajan to life imprisonment within the homicide of senior crime journalist J Dey.
Shetty, who owned the Golden Crown Resort at Gamdevi in central Mumbai, was shot lifeless on the resort’s first flooring on Could 4, 2001.
Based on the prosecution, the homicide was dedicated by the members of an organised crime syndicate headed by Rajan. One Ajay Mohite, who was accompanied by Kundansingh Rawat of the syndicate, had shot Shetty. He was caught red-handed and located to be carrying lethal weapons.
In 2023, a particular Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court docket acquitted Rajan of orchestrating the high-profile homicide of famend Mumbai commerce union chief Dr Datta Samant, who was shot lifeless in 1997. Nevertheless, Chhota Rajan is just not more likely to be launched from jail anytime quickly, as he’s dealing with trial in a number of different instances in varied cities.