Chhota Rajan, Three Others Acquitted In 2009 Double Murder Case

Mumbai: Underworld don Chhota Rajan and three others were acquitted by a CBI court in Mumbai in the 2009 double murder case.

Rajan, however, will not walk out of prison as he is facing trials in several other cases. He has been convicted in the journalist J Dey murder case.

Special judge A M Patil acquitted them for lack of evidence, holding that the prosecution failed to prove the case beyond “reasonable doubt”.

As per the prosecution, in July 2009 Sahid Gulam Hussain, alias Chhote Miya was shot by two men on the footpath in Nagpada area of south Mumbai.

Rajan was deported to India after being arrested in 2015 from Bali in Indonesia. Since then, he is lodged in Tihar jail in New Delhi.