Mumbai: Five Chhota Rajan gang members arrested in builder extortion case
October 31, 2024 17:13 ISTFive other alleged Rajan aides, including a lawyer, were arrested while collecting a partial payment of Rs 7 lakh from Walia.
Five other alleged Rajan aides, including a lawyer, were arrested while collecting a partial payment of Rs 7 lakh from Walia.
A division bench comprising Justice Revati Mohite Dere and Justice Prithviraj Chavan approved Rajan’s bail on a surety of Rs 1 lakh. This development allows him temporary relief while the case proceedings continue.
Jaya Shetty, who was facing extortion threats from the Chhota Rajan gang, was shot dead by two alleged members of the gang on the hotel's first floor on May 4, 2001.
In a significant twist in the Pune crash case, the 17-year-old boy accused of driving the Porsche that fatally collided with a motorbike now claims that his family driver was driving at the time. This assertion is backed by two friends who were with him, as reported by India Today.
The juvenile allegedly knocked down two people in Pune on Sunday. He was earlier granted bail by the Juvenile Justice Board, however, the Pune Police has filed a review plea seeking to try him as an adult.
Pictures of underworld don Chhota Rajan have resurfaced recently. These images, reportedly being taken during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, triggered discussion over his present status amidst previous rumors of his demise due to the virus.
The trial court had convicted 13 other accused but acquitted Pradeep Sharma in the encounter case of gangster Chhota Rajan's close aide Lakhan Bhaiya.
Gangster Chhota Shakeel's aide Laik Mohammed Fida Hussain Shaikh was on the run for more than 25 years.
Mumbai: Nilesh Paradkar and his associates celebrated underworld don Chhota Rajan's birthday and cut his cake with 'big boss' written on it.
Gangster Ejaz Lakdawala has told Mumbai Police that close aides of Chhota Rajan had planned to kill fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in 1998, but the operation failed.
CBI has filed four new cases against underworld don Chhota Rajan and his associates under the sections for murder, attempt to murder, extortion and criminal conspiracy.
A 45-year-old man who has several criminal cases registered against him and who was absconding for over two decades was arrested by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Wednesday. Amar Baburao Wagh alias Yasin Khan was arrested from Nalasopara near Mumbai by unit 8 of the Crime Branch, an official said.
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale's Republican Party of India (RPI) has fielded Chhota Rajan's brother as a party candidate in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly election. Deepak Nikalje will contest from Phaltan assembly constituency in Maharashtra. RPI is an ally of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Rajan is also not allowed to go outside the ward premises. "Only for sometime in the day is Rajan allowed to take a stroll in a veranda, adjacent to his cell," a source said.
A Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (Mcoca) Court on Wednesday sentenced Gangster Chhota Rajan and eight others to life imprisonment in journalist Jyotirmay Dey murder case.
According to investigators, Chhota Rajan ordered the killing of Mr Dey, a veteran crime reporter of Mumbai. He was deported from Indonesia's Bali in November 2015 and subsequently made an accused in the case.
A special court in Delhi on Tuesday awarded 7-year jail term to underworld don Chhota Rajan and three government officials in a fake passport case.
A special court in Delhi on Monday convicted underworld don Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan and others in a fake passport case.
Chhota Rajan, the underworld don who is presently lodged in Tihar jail, has claimed that he is a “true patriot” and that he has been fighting against terrorism for 25 years.
New Delhi: Alleged gangster Chhota Rajan has today been charged for procuring a fake passport by a special court. Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar passed the order after Rajan, produced before the court via video
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