The Delhi Police and Delhi’s AIIMS hospital on Friday denied that underworld gangster Chhota Rajan has died due to the deadly coronavirus COVID-19 infection. Chhota Rajan, 61, was admitted to Delhi’s Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on April 26 after he tested positive for COVID-19.
Several reports surfaced today that the Mumbai underworld gangster, who was undergoing treatment at the AIIMS after his condition deteriorated, died due to COVID-19 related complications in the afternoon. However, the police and AIIMS hospital dismissed the report and stated that he is alive and is being treated.
“News of death of Tihar jail inmate Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje @ Chhota Rajan s/o Sadashiv Nikalje is wrong. He was found COVID-19 positive in Tihar Jail on 22.04.2021 and admitted in AIIMS on 24.04.2021,” DGP Tihar tweeted today.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been investigating Rajan in nearly 80 separate cases including those lodged between 1995 and 1998.
In October 2019, the CBI had also begun probe into five cases against Rajan, including those related to his initial days when he was working as an alleged bootlegger with his mentor Rajan Nair alias Bada Rajan over three decades ago.
Those cases were registered by the Mumbai police in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, reported IANS.