Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said the decision to hand over all the cases against underworld don Chhota Rajan to the Central Bureau of Investigation was taken on the advice of Mumbai police, and dismissed suggestion that it was because of his allegation about a nexus between some police officers and rival gangster Dawood Ibrahim.
Pujari is allegedly involved in eight serious cases in Mumbai, including firing, extortion and murder. A resident of Tagore Nagar in Vikhroli, he had fled from the country years ago. He had allegedly targeted builders and businessmen in eastern Mumbai, the crime branch official said.
Security agencies have decided to bring arrested gangster Chhota Rajan to New Delhi with the Central Bureau of Investigation keeping him in custody for initial period before any other police force is allowed to take him for their respective investigations.
The 'Chhota don' may be down but certainly not out. And the same can be said of the Ganesh pandal once patronised by him, reports Anil Singh.
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Underworld don Chhota Rajan was on Thursday deported to India and is expected to reach Delhi early Friday morning, 27 years after he had fled the country in the face of numerous cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling against him.
Additional Chief Secretary K P Bakshi told reporters at a hurriedly-called press conference that all the cases against 55-year old Rajan, who has been deported from Indonesia, are being transferred to CBI because of its expertise in "handling transnational crimes".
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Fugitive underworld gangster Bhagwant Singh alias Bharat Nepali has been bumped off allegedly by the henchmen of his former boss Chhota Rajan in Bangkok, a top Mumbai police officer said in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar said this after the agency informed the court that there was a "serious life threat" to Rajan from various underworld mafia groups and intelligence inputs have been received in this regard.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was sent to Tihar Jail after a court remanded him in judicial custody till April 15 in the excise policy case, will remain under 24x7 watch with CCTV cameras in his cell and could watch TV and read books, officials said.
A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court in Mumbai on Monday framed charges against 10 accused, including arrested scribe Jigna Vora, in the journalist J Dey murder case of 2011.
A real estate developer, one of the accused held in the 2011 senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case and who was suspected to be a close aide of underworld don Chhota Rajan, died at a private hospital on Friday following liver failure, police said.
The Bombay high court on Tuesday dismissed a discharge plea made by real estate developer Vinod Asrani alias Vinod Chembur, an accused in the murder of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, after observing that there was prima facie evidence against him.
The eight-member team will also put Chhota Rajan, Chhota Shakeel, Abu Salem and other underworld dons under the scanner.
Lakdawala was reportedly shot dead by members of the Chhota Shakeel gang.
The Bombay high court on Wednesday granted bail to Paulson Joseph, an alleged member of the Chhota Rajan gang and accused in the murder of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey.
The Maharashtra government has appointed a special public prosecutor to fight its case against the eleven accused in the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey.
Mumbai police's controversial encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma was remanded on Thursday, to judicial custody till January 27 along with five others including two constables in an alleged fake encounter case involving an aide of gangster Chhota Rajan.
Chief Minister Ashok Chavan had signed the suspension order of five police officials -- Salve, Assistant Commisioner of Police Prakash Wani, Senior Inspector Tulsidas Khakar, Inspector Khalatkar and Constable Talu Salunke, an official in the Chief Minister's office said.
Prosecutor Dilip Shah told the court that the Crime Branch was not pressing for police custody of the duo as they were not required for custodial interrogation any further.
Dismissed police inspector and 'encounter specialist' Pradeep Sharma, arrested for allegedly killing suspected Chhota Rajan aide Ram Narayan Gupta in a fake encounter, on Friday withdrew his bail application from the Bombay High Court.
A man with suspected links to the Chhota Rajan gang was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly providing weapon for the killing of senior crime journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, the ninth arrest in the case.
The Mumbai police filed a chargesheet against encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma and 20 others in an alleged fake encounter of Ramnarayan Gupta, a suspected aide of gangster Chhota Rajan, on Saturday.
Ever heard of Mohaamed Iqbal Memon, Rajendra Nikalje and Salim Kuttanelur? Probably not, because these men are more popularly (or notoriously) known as Iqbal Mirchi, Chhota Rajan and Salim Kutta respectively. All of them are dreaded gangsters of the Mumbai underworld. All of them are better known by the funny or strange monikers they have acquired over the course of their criminal careers.
Mumbai police's high-profile encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma, who was sacked for his alleged criminal links, on Monday alleged that he was being framed by the underworld with the aim of removing him from the police department.Inspector Sharma, who had 112 encounter killings to his name in a career spanning over two decades, alleged that underworld don Chhota Rajan may have had a hand in his dismissal from police service.Sharma said he would challenge his dismissal.
The court observed that it was giving Sapte the benefit of doubt as the prosecution had not been able to prove its case against the accused. On January 16, 1997, four alleged shooters of Chotta Rajan gang had pumped 18 bullets into Samant, leader of Kamgar Aghadi union, as he was leaving his residence in a jeep on Padmavati Road in Powai, northeast Mumbai.
One of the rare Mumbai police officers to find a place in Time magazine for his action against the underworld, Pradip Sharma has gunned down 100 gangsters in a span of nearly 14 years.
Meera Borwankar appointment will not mean the Dawood Ibrahims and Chhota Rajans can take a breather because Borwankar is known as one of the toughest officers Maharashtra has had.
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Even those with no knowledge of the inner workings of the media and police, would find Scoop absorbing as a human drama and the story of the resilience of a woman, her family and true friends, applauds Deepa Gahlot.
'After Rajan is back in India, our resident dons are almost down. I won't say that they are out. So, now the obvious question is about Dawood, and the present government, I think, is more than willing to address that issue.' 'I think the political system made this kind of people; the corporate world made this kind of people. I have mentioned in my book that even the banks were using these outlaws to get their money back.'
CBI judge B H Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case died in 2014 when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague's daughter. The reason for his death was said to be caridac arrest.
'I have always been attracted to the dark side of human beings.'
Chetia, who was in Bangladesh since his arrest by the neighbouring country's police in 1997, was handed over to India at the personal intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and through active involvement of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.
Lakdawala was apprehended by Mumbai Crime Branch's anti-extortion cell team at the International Airport. He once worked for underworld don Dawood Ibrahim before forming his own gang.
A special court will start the trial of the journalist J Dey murder case on a daily basis from December 17.
He was medically examined then shifted him to jail number 2, whose other notable inmates include gangster Chhota Rajan.
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