Cant send Rajan to Mumbai, says CBI
Underworld don Chhota Rajan cannot be physically produced before a special MCOCA court in Mumbai due to a threat to his life, a Delhi court has said and directed CBI to urge Maharashtra government to arrange video conferencing from Tihar jail here for the purpose.
By : migrator
Update: 2016-01-07 20:11 GMT
New Delhi
Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar said this after the agency informed the court that there was a “serious life threat” to Rajan from various underworld mafia groups and intelligence inputs have been received in this regard.
CBI also said that Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court in Mumbai may be requested to procure Rajan’s attendance through video conferencing.
The agency said this in its reply filed on an application moved by the superintendent of Tihar Jail, where Rajan is currently lodged under judicial custody in an alleged fake passport case.
In his plea, the jail superintendent said a production warrant was issued by MCOCA court at Arthur Road prison premises in Mumbai for his production before it on Thursday.
Rajan fears life
During the hearing on the plea, Rajan, who was produced through video conferencing, submitted that he was likely to be killed by his rivals if he is sent to Mumbai. His counsel also said that sending Rajan to Mumbai may put his life under serious threat.
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.
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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