Underworld don and gangster Chhota Rajan is still alive, confirmed news agency ANI in a twitter message. Chhota Rajan was admitted to the hospital on April 26 after he tested positive Covid. 61-year old Rajan was lodged in the high-security Tihar Jail in New Delhi since his arrest after deportation from Bali, Indonesia, in 2015. Earlier, in the day there were reports doing the rounds that Rajan had died due to COVID-19 at AIIMS.
Notably, all the criminal cases registered against him in Mumbai were transferred to the CBI and a Delhi-based special court was constituted to try him in the cases. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2018 in a murder case of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. Last month, a special CBI court in Mumbai had acquitted Rajan and his aide in connection with the murder of Hanif Kadawala who was an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.In January this year, he was convicted in connection with an extortion case by a special court and was sentenced to two years of imprisonment under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act and the IPC under charges of extortion and criminal conspiracy.