Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said the decision to hand over all the cases against underworld don Chhota Rajan to CBI was taken on the advice of Mumbai police, and dismissed suggestion that it was because of his allegation about a nexus between some police officers and rival gangster Dawood Ibrahim.

"Before we announced the decision, I had called a meeting of senior police officials including Mumbai police commissioner Javed Ahmed. All of them were of the opinion that the cases should be transferred to CBI," Fadnavis told PTI.