Cases against Chhota Rajan

New Delhi: Chhota Rajan is the boss of a major crime syndicate based in India.

Starting as a petty thief and bootlegger working for Rajan Nair, also known as Bada Rajan, Chhota Rajan took over the reins of the gang after the former’s murder. Later, he was affiliated with and operated at the behest of don Dawood Ebrahim in Mumbai and eventually fled India to the Gulf in 1988.

He is wanted for many criminal cases that include extortion, murder, smuggling, drug trafficking and film finance. His brother is said to produce films financed by Rajan. He is also wanted in 17 murder cases and several more attempted murders.

In the early nineties, a group within the Indian organised crime syndicate D-Company led by Sautya, Chhota Shakeel and Sharad Shetty had started to resent the growing clout and influence of Rajan. They had started planting stories against him to Dawood.

Rajan, increasingly became suspicious and insecure of the developments taking place within the gang and began fearing for his life. This led him to request the Indian officials to help him flee abroad and settle down in another country under a different identity, in return for information about syndicates. The more popular known fact of their split centres on Dawood’s involvement in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts and Rajan’s opposition to that, mainly on communal grounds.