Chhota Rajan’s sisters seek court’s permission to meet him on ‘Bhai Dooj’

Two sisters of mafia don Rajendra S. Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan met him here at the CBI headquarters on Friday evening on the occasion of “Bhai-Dooj” festival.

On Thursday, the sisters had moved a plea in a trial court seeking the court’s permission to meet Rajan on grounds of “compassion”, saying they have not met Rajan for the past 27 years and wanted to “bless” him. Special CBI Judge OP Saini has sent the application to the prosecution and has fixed it for hearing before Special Judge Vinod Kumar at his residence on Friday morning.

The judge made it clear that the meeting could take place only if the CBI gave the green signal, which it did.

Advocate Rajiv Jai, who appeared on behalf of Rajan’s sisters, said the court has asked the IO to consider the plea keeping in view the security concerns.

The sisters brought home-made candies for Rajan, but were not allowed to take it inside the CBI headquarters. Also read:Â How India could’ve lost Chhota Rajan to UAE by a whisker “We had begun to look for case papers and even witnesses in old cases since cases registered between 1980-90 are hard to locate; but with the government’s decision to transfer the cases to the CBI, all those efforts have gone in vain”, a Mumbai police official said. Sunita’s son-in-law Anil Menon accompanied them. “We are meeting him after 30 years”, a visibly excited Sunita Chavan told IANS. “We never knew where he was living all these years. The CBI is a bigger agency, so we feel he will be treated well”.

Chavan and Sakpal live in Maharashtra.

“If he was living in Australia all these years, how could he be involved in crime here (India)?” she asked. “So he should be treated well”.

On November 7, CBI had got 10 days custody of Chhota Rajan in connection with an alleged fake passport case registered by the agency on October 31, shortly before its team left for Indonesia to deport him back from Indonesia.