New Delhi: Dreaded Mumbai underworld don Chhota Rajan, alias Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, was flown in to Delhi early on Friday from Bali, Indonesia, from where he was deported late Thursday after his arrest there late last month. Rajan was taken into custody by a joint CBI-Delhi police team shortly after the Indonesians handed him over to the Indian authorities.
The 55-year-old gangster landed in the Palam technical area along with a seven-member security team, including members of the Delhi police’s elite special cell and the crime branch of the Mumbai police, in an IAF Gulfstream-III aircraft. Immediately after his arrival, he was taken into preventive custody by the CBI’s Interpol division. The CBI will keep him in its custody at least till it completes all the legal formalities for registering a case of allegedly procuring a fake passport and takes over 70-odd cases handed over to it by the Maharashtra government. Armed commandos have been stationed at the lockup at the CBI headquarters in the CGO Complex near Lodhi Road, where Rajan has been kept.
Rajan was extensively questioned by a joint team of the CBI, Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing and the Delhi police officials at the CBI headquarters. “If required, CBI officials may conduct lie-detection and brain-mapping tests on Rajan”, a source said.
Sources said that due to the intense security threat, Rajan, who has reportedly tipped off Indian security agencies on the movements of Dawood Ibrahim and his close aides, is unlikely to be taken to a Delhi court. Instead, a magistrate will be brought to the CBI headquarters for his remand.
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