Update
Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi
New Delhi, May 7: Dismissing the death news of underworld gangster Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, who is popularly known as 'Chhota Rajan', All India Institute of Medical Services (AIIMS) on Friday May 7 said that he is still alive.
"Underworld don Chhota Rajan is still alive. He is admitted at AIIMS for treatment of COVID-19," news agency ANI quoted an AIIMS official as saying.
Earlier, multiple media reports had claimed that 61-year-old Rajan passed away on Friday due to COVID-19 complications.
Rajan, is lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail since his deportation from Indonesia in 2015. He had tested positive for the deadly COVID-19 infection last week and was admitted to the AIIMS in the national capital.
Earlier report
Underworld gangster Chhota Rajan dies of Covid-19 at AIIMS
Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi
New Delhi, May 7: Gangster and underworld don Chhota Rajan died due to Covid-19 at All India Institute of Medical Services (AIIMS) New Delhi on Friday May 7. He was 61.
Following his arrest from Indonesia, in 2015, he was lodged in the high security Tihar prison in New Delhi.
He had tested positive for the COVID-19 infection last week and was admitted to the AIIMS.
Rajan was an accused in at least 70 criminal cases in Maharashtra with connection to extortion and murder.
Rajan, who was working with Dawood Ibrahim since 1984, was arrested in Bali based on a Red Corner Notice from Interpol. In 2015, he was handed over to India.