Bail to Chhota Rajan in SoBo hotelier's murder
The Free Press Journal|October 24, 2024
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to gangster Chhota Rajan and suspended his sentence in the 2001 murder of Jaya Shetty, owner of the Golden Crown hotel in south Mumbai.
Urvi Mahaj
Bail to Chhota Rajan in SoBo hotelier's murder

The court noted that there were "glaring discrepancies" in the order of the special court while convicting him and sentencing him to life in prison.

A bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Prithviraj Chavan has directed Rajan, who is currently lodged at Tihar jail in Delhi, to furnish a personal bond of Rs1 lakh along with sureties of the same amount.

On May 4, 2001, Shetty was shot dead by two unidentified persons. The case was among the 71 cases that were handed over to the CBI after Rajan was deported to India from Indonesia in 2015.

The prosecution alleged that Shetty was killed for allegedly refusing to pay a ransom amount. The Mumbai police had provided security to Shetty, which was withdrawn two months before his murder. After the incident, the hotel manager and another employee had managed to run behind the shooters and catch one of them.

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