Chota Rajan Awarded Life Sentence By Mumbai Court In Hotelier Jaya Shetty’s Murder Case

A Mumbai court on Thursday convicted gangster Chhota Rajan in the murder of hotelier Jaya Shetty in 2001 and awarded him a life sentence.

A Special judge for cases under the Maharashtra Control Of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), AM Patil pronounced the verdict in the case.

Jaya Shetty was a renowned hotelier in Mumbai who owned the Golden Crown Hotel at Gamdevi in central Mumbai.

Rajan had demanded extortion money from Shetty. On not receiving the same, Shetty was shot dead by two members of the Chota Rajan gang inside his hotel on May 4, 2001.

Chhota Rajan is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail after his deportation to India following his arrest in Indonesia in October 2015.