CBI to probe 5 cases against Chhota Rajan

New Delhi, October 29

The CBI has taken up five new cases against gangster Chhota Rajan, with two of these pertaining to his initial days as alleged small-time bootlegger working for his mentor Rajan Nair over 36 years ago, officials said here today.

In one of the cases of 1980, his godfather Nair, aka Bada Rajan, is also named accused with him, while another relates to his “filmy” car chase by the police in 1983 in which he had injured two policemen who attempted to catch him, they said. The other three cases pertain to abduction and extortion allegedly committed by his gang members on his orders in late 90s and early 2000s.

On November 21 in 1980, Chhota Rajan, along with his mentor Nair, and accomplices Abdul and Ramesh Sharma had allegedly stabbed one Anthony Fernandes, who was waiting for a rickshaw at the Ram Narkar road in the evening.

Nair was reportedly killed in 1982, following which Rajan Sadashiv Nikalje, alias Chhota Rajan, took over the leadership of the gang. — PTI