{"id":330025,"date":"2021-01-04T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T10:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330025"},"modified":"2021-01-04T11:01:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:01:54","slug":"underworld-gangster-chhota-rajan-3-others-get-2-year-jail-in-extortion-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/underworld-gangster-chhota-rajan-3-others-get-2-year-jail-in-extortion-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Underworld Gangster Chhota Rajan, 3 others get 2-year jail in extortion case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-330031 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/chhota-rajan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/chhota-rajan-2.jpg 391w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/chhota-rajan-2-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/chhota-rajan-2-387x420.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/>A Mumbai Sessions Court on Monday sentenced underworld don Chhota Rajan and three others to two-year imprisonment in connection with an extortion case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajan has been accused of giving threats to Panvel&#8217;s builder Nandu Wajekar and tried to extort Rs 26 crores from him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the builder had purchased land in Maharashtra\u2019s Pune in 2015 and as part of the sale, a commission of Rs 2 crore was to be given to an agent named Parmanand Thakkar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thakkar, however, demanded more money as commission which Wajekar refused to give and then Thakkar allegedly approached Chhota Rajan who sent some of his men to Wajekar&#8217;s office and demanded Rs 26 crore and also threatened to kill him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chhota Rajan, who is already serving a life sentence in Delhi&#8217;s Tihar jail, was convicted on the charges of murder, attempt to murder, extortion and criminal conspiracy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mumbai Sessions Court on Monday sentenced underworld don Chhota Rajan and three others to two-year imprisonment in connection with an extortion case. Rajan has been accused of giving threats to Panvel&#8217;s builder Nandu Wajekar and tried to extort Rs 26 crores from him. According to the sources, the builder had purchased land in Maharashtra\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[9430,13419],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330032,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330025\/revisions\/330032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}