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Rajan pleads guilty to visa offence

Jaishree Balasubramanian in Bangkok

Bombay underworld don Chhota Rajan, wounded in a shootout in Bangkok, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a charge of giving false information to Thai immigration authorities in his visa application and was fined 500 Baht (500 Rupees).

Rajan alias Vijay Daman was brought to the Southern Bangkok Court on a stretcher from the Samitivej Hospital for the case in which he had been charged with providing wrong name and address of a proposed company to Thai immigration authorities while applying for a business visa.

Thai immigration police also charged Rajan with overstaying stating that his visa had expired on September 25. Rajan's lawyer Sirichai Piyaphichetkul said his client was not at fault since he had been lying in hospital after being shot at by gunmen.

He added that the police had confiscated Rajan's passport after the September 15 shooting and there was no way the visa could be extended.

Rajan's lawyer had on Monday submitted a petition to the Thailand prime minister's office stating that the gangster be allowed to leave Thailand for a third country.

Rajan entered Thailand under the name of Vijay Daman and escaped an assassination attempt after gunmen opened fire at his friend's apartment where he was staying. His friend, Rohit Verma alias Michael D'Souza, was killed in the firing.

Verma's wife Sangeeta received two bullet wounds. Verma's two-year-old daughter who was also in the room, escaped unhurt.

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