News of Chhota Rajan's death wrong: Tihar Jail administration

NEW DELHI: The Tihar Jail administration on Friday said that the news of gangster Chhota Rajan's death is "wrong".
Rajan was found Covid-19 positive in the Tihar Jail on April 22 and admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on April 24.
"News of death of Tihar jail inmate Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje @ Chhota Rajan s/o Sadashiv Nikalje is wrong," Director General (Prisons) Sandeep Goel said.
Rajan, 61, is lodged at the high security prison since his arrest after deportation from Bali in 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.
An assistant jailor of the Tihar jail telephonically had informed the sessions court that they could not produce Rajan via video conference before the judge for hearing in a case as the gangster had tested positive for Covid-19 and admitted to the AIIMS.
Rajan was facing as many as 70 criminal cases pertaining to extortion and murder in Mumbai.
In 2018, Rajan was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2011 murder case of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey.
Last week, 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.
With agency inputs