CBI gets Mumbai court nod to grill Rajan for 10 days

Special Judge AL Pansare allowed CBI’s plea seeking nod to question the 54-yearold crime boss for 10 days starting January 27 before adjourning the case till February 5. 

Rajan, who was produced via video link from Delhi’s Tihar Jail told the court that he has received the chargesheet and needs time to go through it. “I am kept in a high security cell and only taken out once in a week and need 15 days to a month for scanning the chargesheet and engaging a lawyer in Mumbai,” Rajan told the court to which Judge Pansare informed the gangster that his (Delhi-based) lawyer Anshuman Sinha was present in the court. 

Earlier, Rajan had moved an application in Delhi court, saying that he may not be sent to Mumbai as there is threat to his life. On January 7, the court had reprimanded Mumbai Police for not serving the copy of the chargesheet to Rajan.