Mumbai: The Mumbai Police on Saturday arrested six people for putting up a poster in Malad, wishing underworld don Chhota Rajan on his birthday. One of the arrested men was to organise a kabaddi tournament on the occasion.
The police found the poster in Malad East after its photo went viral. It was pulled down immediately.
Poster welcomes 'honoured dignitaries' to a sporting event
The poster had a picture of the gangster along with text ‘On the occasion of the birthday of Chhota Rajan (Nana), a two-day kabaddi tournament will be held on Saturday and Sunday’. The poster also “welcomed honoured dignitaries” to the sporting event.
The men have been identified as the key 26-year-old organiser Sagar Gole, besides Rakesh Gadigaonkar, Raj Gole, Gaurav Chavan, Vidhya Kadam and Deepak Sakapal. A case has been registered at the Kurar police station.
Chhota Rajan was deported to India after being arrested in 2015 from Bali in Indonesia. In 2018, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of journalist J Dey in 2011. He is currently lodged in Tihar jail and also faces trial in several cases, including extortion, murder, smuggling, drug trafficking. He was a former key aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim
