Underworld don Chhota Rajan is alive officially said by AIIMS

The Underworld don and gangster Chhota Rajan is still alive. The AIIMS officials refuted allegations of his death on Friday.

Chhota Rajan was admitted to the hospital on April 26 after he tested Covidpositive.

As 61-year old Rajan was lodged in the high-security Tihar Jail in New Delhi since his arrest after deportation from Bali, Indonesia, in 2015.

All the criminal cases pending against him in Mumbai were transferred to the CBI and a special court was constituted to try them.

On Monday, an assistant jailor of the Tihar jail telephonically informed the sessions court here that they could not produce Rajan via video conference before the judge for hearing in a case as the gangster has tested positive for COVID-19 and admitted to the AIIMS.

Rajan is facing as many as 70 criminal cases pertaining to extortion and murder in Mumbai.