After 30 years, sisters meet Chhota Rajan on 'Bhai-Dooj' at CBI HQ

New DelhiAfter 30 long years mafia don Chhota Rajan on Friday met his two older sisters with one of them pleading that he should be treated wellSunita Chavan and Malini Sakpal met Rajan 56 at the headquarters of the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI after Special CBI judge Vinod Kumar gave the go aheadThe occasion that brought the sisters and brother together was the festival of BhaiDoojThe emotional reunion lasted some 25 minutes before which Sunita Chavan the younger of the two sisters told IANS that they had not spoken to him during the last three decades when he married crimeChhota Rajans sisters Sunita Chavan and Malini Sakpal at CBI office on Bhai DoojChavan and Sakpal live in Maharashtra and reached New Delhi on Thursday with a lawyer with the intention of meeting Rajendra S Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan who is in a CBI lockup hereWe are meeting him after 30 years a visibly excited Sunita Chavan told IANSWe never knew where he was living all these years We never spoke to him even on telephoneShe said both sisters are feeling very good that he is back in India even if he is in custodyAsked if they had any view on Chhota Rajan being in custody in Mumbai or Delhi she said He is in custody which custody doesnt matter The CBI is a bigger agency so we feel he will be treated wellSunita Chavan insisted that her brother was being framed on most cases he is accused ofIf he was living in Australia all these years how could he be involved in crime here India she askedIn any case he has not done anything against the country she told IANS trying to draw a line between an underworld involved in crime and an underworld with terror links So he should be treated wellThe sisters had met Sessions Judge OP Saini at his Gurgaon residence on Thursday night They had moved an application before Saini at the Patiala House Court seeking clearance to meet himRajans sisters sought the CBI courts permission to meet their brother currently in the probe agencys custody on the occasion of Bhai Dooj saying they hadnt met him for the past 27 years and wanted to bless himDuring the hearing which took place at the residence of Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar the court asked Sunita Sakkharam Chavan and her elder sister Malini Sakpal to approach CBIs investigating officer with their applicationAdvocate Rajiv Jai who appeared on behalf of Rajans sisters who reside in Maharashtra said the court has asked the IO to consider the plea keeping in view the security concernsIn an application moved before the court Rajans sisters sought permission to meet the underworld don on compassionate groundsThe applicants pray that the applicant Sunita Sakkharam Chavan and her elder sister Malini Sakpal may be allowed to meet their brother That the applicants are physically unfit and may be escorted by their soninlaw Anil Menon for help their application saidBoth the sisters in their application said they would not hinder the probe and abide by any condition imposed by the court Allow the applicant Sunita Sakkharam Chavan and her elder sister Malini Sakpal along with their son in law Anil Menon for help to meet their brother Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan who is in police custody CBI for ten days since November 7 2015 on compassionate grounds and allow them to follow rituals of Bhai Dooj subject to any conditions which the court may deem fit and proper in circumstances the plea saidAfter being on the run for the past 27 years underworld don Chhota Rajan was brought to India from Indonesia on November 6 by a joint team headed by CBI officials to face trial in various criminal cases registered against him in Delhi and MumbaiOn November 7 CBI had got 10 days custody of Chhota Rajan in connection with an alleged fake passport case registered by the agency on October 31 shortly before its team left for Indonesia to deport him back from IndonesiaRajans sisters plea further said that the applicants have never met their brother for the last so many years and after so many years when he is in the country they wish to bless himThe agency had registered a case against Rajan and unnamed officials for allegedly issuing a passport to him with a fake identity of Mohan Kumar in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare in 2003 where he was hiding after escaping from Bangkok following an attempt on his life in 2000 by Dawood Ibrahims hitmenCBI had registered the case for the alleged offences of cheating forgery violation of Passport Act and violation Prevention of Corruption Act This is the second case of fake passport against him the first having been registered in 2002 for another passport issued in 1996 with a fake identity of Vijay Kadam in BangkokThe 55yearold gangster whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje has been kept in the national capital where he is being questioned by sleuths of various investigating agencies as he has been making claims of having further evidence to nail Indias most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and his links with Pakistans intelligence agency ISIAhead of Rajans arrival in India Maharashtra government had made a surprise announcement of handing over all the cases relating to the underworld don to the CBI as the agency had expertise in handling such cases