J Dey murder: CBI allowed to quiz Rajan
20 Jan 2016 6:07 AM IST
A special MCOCA court on Tuesday granted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) permission to interrogate deported gangster Chhota Rajan in connection with journalist J Dey murder case of 2011.
Special Judge AL Pansare allowed CBI's plea seeking nod to question the 54-year-old gangster 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 said 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.
On January 7, the court had reprimanded Mumbai Police for not serving the copy of the chargesheet to Rajan.
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