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Chhota Rajan claims that Indian agencies gave him a fake passport

Dawood's men had snatched his original passport in Dubai, alleged Rajan, whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje.

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Gangster Chhota Rajan has told a Delhi court that he was given a fake passport by Indian intelligence agencies who he was helping "fight against terrorists." As don Dawood Ibrahim's men were trying to murder him in Bangkok 16 years ago, Rajan claimed he was given a passport in the name of Mohan Kumar Rajan told the court on Wednesday via video conference from Delhi's Tihar Jail, where he is kept currently.

Rajan told NDTV: "I have been involved in fighting against terrorists and those anti-India forces who are bent upon damaging our country and killing innocent citizens...I cannot name people who have helped me or to whom I have extended help to in the fight against terrorism in national interest." 

Rajan was recording his statement as an accused in a fake passport case against him and three former passport officers,  He was arrested last year in Indonesia after 25 years on the run. He was then deported to India. 

In his statement, he detailed a cross country-chase by "the henchmen of Dawood Ibrahim after they came to know that I was supplying information to Indian agencies about the perpetrators of the 1993 Mumbai blasts." They had snatched his original passport in Dubai, alleged Rajan, whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje.

He told the court that he has been "working constantly for my country and fighting those persons who want to damage our country" since the 1993 blasts which killed 257 people in Mumbai. To do that, he said, he had to "keep my identity secret so that I can help those people who are involved in the protection of our territory." Dawood Ibrahim, India's most wanted, is accused of plotting the 1993 serial blasts. Rajan has been charged with cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy in the passport case by the Delhi court.

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