The Supreme Court has agreed to perceive a plea filed by the CBI challenging a Bombay High Court bid that suspended the beingness condemnation of gangster Chhota Rajan successful the 2021 execution lawsuit of hotelier Jaya Shetty and granted him bail.
A three-judge seat of Justices Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol and Sandeep Mehta issued announcement to Rajan and sought his effect wrong 4 weeks. “Issue notice, returnable wrong 4 weeks. In the meantime, counsel for the petitioner shall besides wide the defects arsenic pointed retired by the Registry,” the seat said.
In May past year, a peculiar tribunal convicted Rajan for murdering Shetty and sentenced him to beingness imprisonment. Rajan filed an entreaty successful the HC against the conviction. In its bid passed connected October 23, 2024, the HC suspended his condemnation and granted bail. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has challenged the HC order.
Shetty, who owned the Golden Crown edifice astatine Gamdevi successful cardinal Mumbai, was changeable dormant by 2 members of Rajan’s pack connected the hotel’s archetypal level connected May 4, 2001.