Delhi: AIIMS denies reports of underworld don Chhota Rajan's death

MUMBAI: The All India Institute of Medical Services (AIIMS) on Friday denied the reports of underworld don Rajendra Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan's death.
Chhota Rajan, who had tested positive for Covid-19, had been admitted to the New Delhi-based AIIMS on April 24.

DG Prisons said later, "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."
Rajan, 61, 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.
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.