Chhota Rajan to get treatment at AIIMS

NEW DELHI: Ailing underworld don Chhota Rajan alias Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje will be treated at All India Institute of Medical Sciences and not at Tihar jail. A

NEW DELHI: Ailing underworld don Chhota Rajan alias Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje will be treated at All India Institute of Medical Sciences and not at Tihar jail. A special court here allowed his plea on Tuesday.

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Rajan is suffering from hernia and there have been reports of bleeding from his nose and constant stomach pain. Rajan, in his plea, said that there was no ultrasound facility available in the jail.

“Jail treatment can harm me, I need treatment from AIIMS doctors,” his plea read.

Counsel appearing for Rajan, Anshuman Sinha, said, “The judge has allowed Rajan to get treatment at AIIMS. For security reasons, it would, however, be better if doctors from AIIMS treat him at the jail itself.”

The exact date on which he would be escorted to the hospital for treatment has not been revealed due to security reasons, he added.

Spokesperson of Tihar Jail said, “We will write to the AIIMS authorities because in some cases treatment is not possible in jail as there are several medical equipment, which cannot be brought to the jail.”

Rajan’s plea read that he had undergone a bypass surgery in 2011. After the bypass surgery he reportedly had a prostate operation.

He is lodged in the Tihar Jail in connection with an alleged fake passport case. He was deported to India after being on the run for 27 years. The 55-year-old gangster was once a close aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was brought to the country to face trial in more than 71 cases of murder, extortion, and drug smuggling lodged against him in Delhi and Mumbai.