Chhota Rajan alive in jail, confirms AIIMS

New Delhi : The news of underworld don Chhota Rajan passing away due to coronavirus were all over on social media on Friday. But the AIIMS official has denied them, informing that he is still alive.

61-year-old don was admitted to AIIMS Delhi after he tested positive for coronavirus on April 26.

Rajan is likely to be considered as a high-risk coronavirus patient as he suffers from a slew of comorbidities, including diabetes, heart problem, kidney failure, hernia, laparotomy and hypertension.

Rajan was lodged in the high-security Tihar prison in New Delhi since his arrest after deportation from Bali, Indonesia, in 2015. All the criminal cases pending against him in Mumbai were transferred to the CBI and a special court was constituted to try them.

Nearly 70 criminal cases of extortion and murder are lodged against Chhota Rajan.

In 2018, Rajan was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2011 murder case of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. In April, the special CBI court in Mumbai acquitted Rajan and his aide in connection with the murder of Hanif Kadawala, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.

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