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A Mumbai court has convicted gangster Chhota Rajan guilty for the murder of hotelier Jaya Shetty in 2001. The court will likely pronounce the quantum of sentence later in the day.
Jaya Shetty was the owner of the Golden Crown hotel at Gamdevi in central Mumbai. He had been getting calls for extortion from the Chhota Rajan gang.
He was shot dead by two members of the gang inside his hotel on May 4, 2001. Due to the threats, the Maharashtra police had provided him a security cover. However, two months before the murder, his security cover had been withdrawn.
Chhota Rajan is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail after his deportation to India following his arrest in Indonesia in October 2015.
According to TOI, two shooters had shot dead Jaya Shetty. The manager and an employee of the hotel chased the shooters and caught one of them.
Chhota Rajan, whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, had made headlines last year when he approached the Bombay high court (HC) against filmmaker Hansal Mehta and owners of Matchbox Shots LLP, who produced the web series ‘Scoop'.
Source: Chhota Rajan convicted for murder of Mumbai hotelier Jaya Shetty