New Delhi: Amid stories and speculations that Rajendra Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan has handed away because of Covid-19 problems, an official at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Services (AIIMS) the place the previous is being handled for the virus on Friday stated the underworld don and gangster continues to be alive.
Rajan, lodged earlier in solitary confinement in one of many largest cells on the high-security Tihar Jail since his arrest after deportation from Bali, Indonesia, in 2015, was admitted to the AIIMS on April 26.
The 62-year-old, who was not even allowed to work together with the opposite prisoners within the Tihar Jail because of safety issues, might have contracted the virus from some asymptomatic jail officer, officers reportedly suspect.
Underworld don Chhota Rajan continues to be alive. He is admitted at AIIMS for therapy of Covid-19, an AIIMS official was quoted by information company ANI as saying.
Rajan is dealing with round 70 legal instances associated to extortion and homicide in Mumbai. A particular courtroom has been constituted to attempt the instances in opposition to Rajan that have been later transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The particular CBI courtroom in Mumbai had final month acquitted Rajan and his aide in reference to the homicide of Hanif Kadawala, an accused within the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.
He was earlier in 2018 convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment within the 2011 homicide case of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey.
