Underworld don Chhota Rajan was taken to AIIMS in Delhi for a medical surgery, prison officials confirmed on Friday. The officials stated that he was admitted to AIIMS on Thursday for a minor nose operation, which was recommended by doctors.
He is expected to return to Tihar Jail after the surgery and will be monitored in the prison hospital under medical supervision.
Security around the hospital has been tightened as a precaution. Hospital sources mentioned that Rajan is being treated in an old private ward under the ENT Department.
Rajan, once a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim, was sentenced to life in 2024 for the murder of hotelier Jaya Shetty in 2001. In October 2024, Rajan was granted bail in the same case after the Bombay High Court suspended his life sentence.
However, he remains in custody in connection with other cases. In 2018, a special court sentenced Rajan to life imprisonment for the 2011 murder of journalist J Dey.
When granting bail, the Bombay High Court instructed Rajan to submit a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh.
Last week, a member of the Chhota Rajan gang, Vilas Pawar, was arrested after evading capture for 32 years. Pawar, wanted for a 1992 shooting incident at Dadar police station and a murder case, had maintained control over Rajan’s stronghold in Mumbai’s Govandi throughout the 1980s.
Rajan had been on the run for over three decades before being arrested by Indonesian police in October 2015. He was later extradited from Bali to India.
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