Chhota Rajan gets 8-year jail term for attempt to murder

NPnews24 online, Mumbai: Notorious gangster Chhota Rajan and fice others were sentenced to eight years of rigorous imprisonment by a Mumbai court on Tuesday in a 2012 attempt-to-murder case.  The case was lodged against them by a hotelier.

Special court judge AT Wankhede convicted the six under various sections of the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The court also fined the accused of Rs 5 lakh each.

Hotelier BR Shetty was shot at in suburban Andheri when he was going to meet his friend in October 2012.  He had lodged a case against Rajan, who is currently lodged at Tihar jail in Delhi following his arrest in Indonesia and subsequent deportation to India in October 2015.

Besides Rajan, the others who have been awarded the punishment are Nityanand Nayak, Selvin Daniel, Rohit Thangappan Joseph alias Satish Kalia, Dilip Upadhyay and Talvinder Singh.