Chotta Rajan shifted to undisclosed place

Thai authorities have shifted underworld don Chotta Rajan to an undisclosed destination from a local hospital where he was undergoing treatment for gunshot injuries in an attack by a rival gang even as one of the arrested assailants vowed to hunt him and kill him within three months.

Rajan and Sikandi Hama, who was also injured in the attack in which her jeweler husband Rohit D'souza was killed last Friday at the couple's apartment, were shifted from the hospital after an unknown Indian tried to visit them there, 'The Bangkok Post' reported on Friday.

Meanwhile, another English daily 'The Nation' quoted one of the four gunmen arrested in connection with the shooting as saying they would hunt down and kill Rajan within three months.

“Rajan is our enemy. He is a drug dealer, he cheated my boss Shakeel Bhai. So he has to die,” Mohamad Salim, one of the three Pakistanis arrested along with a Thai national, told the newspaper.

“Rajan is lucky, but he will be killed by my gang within three months. Let's wait and see,” the daily quoted him as saying.

He also claimed that the Indian jeweler who was killed in the shooting was actually an informant of Chotta Shakeel, a close aide of Dubai-based mafia leader Dawood Ibrahim.

Bureau Report