Mumbai:
Underworld don Rajendra Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan has examined constructive for COVID-19 and admitted to the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Companies (AIIMS), Tihar jail authorities knowledgeable a classes courtroom in Mumbai on Monday.
Rajan, 61, is lodged within the excessive safety Tihar jail in New Delhi since his arrest after deportation from Bali, Indonesia, in 2015.
All of the legal instances pending towards him in Mumbai had been transferred to the CBI and a particular courtroom was constituted to attempt them.
On Monday, an assistant jailor of the Tihar jail telephonically knowledgeable the classes courtroom right here that they may not produce Rajan through video convention earlier than the decide for listening to in a case because the gangster has examined constructive for COVID-19 and admitted to the AIIMS.
Rajan is dealing with as many as 70 legal instances pertaining to extortion and homicide in Mumbai.
In 2018, Rajan was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment within the 2011 homicide case of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey.
Final week, the particular CBI courtroom in Mumbai acquitted Rajan and his aide in reference to the homicide of Hanif Kadawala, an accused within the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.
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