Mumbai, Jan. 7 : Underworld don Chhota Rajan was on Thursday sent to judicial custody in connection with journalist Jyotirmoy Dey’s murder case. Rajan, who is wanted in 71 cases in Maharashtra, was produced before a special MCOCA Court via video conferencing today. He has asked for some time from the court to engage a lawyer for himself. A Delhi Court had earlier allowed the CBI to conduct hearing against Rajan via video conferencing, observing that the underworld don has serious threat to his life. In November last year, Rajan was brought to New Delhi in a special aircraft after being deported from Indonesia. In a surprise move, the Maharashtra Government had earlier transferred all cases related to the gangster to the CBI. (Also Read: CBI not to disclosure of Chhota Rajan FIR)
In its order, the court noted that due to the threat perception to Rajan, he was being produced before it also through video conferencing here. The court had earlier ordered that remand proceedings in the alleged fake passport case, in which Rajan was arrested by CBI, would be conducted through video conferencing from Tihar jail. Deported after being on the run for 27 years, the 55-year-old gangster, whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, was sent to high-security Tihar prison in judicial custody on November 19 last year in connection with the case. Rajan, once a close aide of fugitive terrorist and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, has been brought to the country to face trial in over 70 cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling in Delhi and Mumbai. After his arrest in Bali (Indonesia) on October 25 last year, India had pressed for his early deportation.
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