Chhota Rajan Discharged From AIIMS, Returns To Tihar Jail After Recovering From Covid

Rajan, lodged earlier in solitary confinement in one of the biggest cells at the high-security Tihar Jail since his arrest after deportation from Bali, Indonesia, in 2015, was admitted to the AIIMS on April 26.

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New Delhi: Rajendra Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan, admitted at Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Services (AIIMS) after testing Covid-19 positive, was taken back to the Tihar Jail on Tuesday after he recovered from the virus.

Rajan was brought back to Tihar on Tuesday as he had recovered, PTI reported a senior police officer as saying.

Rajan, lodged earlier in solitary confinement in one of the biggest cells at the high-security Tihar Jail since his arrest after deportation from Bali, Indonesia, in 2015, was admitted to the AIIMS on April 26.

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He is facing around 70 criminal cases related to extortion and murder in Mumbai. A special court has been constituted to try the cases against Rajan that were later transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The special CBI court in Mumbai had last month acquitted Rajan and his aide in connection with the murder of Hanif Kadawala, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.

He was earlier in 2018 convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2011 murder case of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey.