Underworld don Chhota Rajan, who is incarcerated in Tihar Jail, has been admitted to AIIMS Delhi for sinus treatment.

Doctors hinted that Chhota Rajan might need an operation owing to which he has been admitted.

Chhota Rajan, whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, was arrested by Indonesian police in October 2015 after which he was extradited from Bali to India.

The gangster believed to have been a former right-hand man of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, spent nearly three decades on the run before his arrest.

In May last year, a special court in Mumbai sentenced Chhota Rajan to life imprisonment in the murder of hotelier Jaya Shetty in 2001, more than six years after he was handed a similar sentence in the killing of journalist J Dey.

Jaya Shetty owned the Golden Crown Hotel at Gamdevi in Mumbai and was shot dead on the hotel’s first floor on May 4, 2001.

At the time, the court sentenced Chhota Rajan to rigorous imprisonment for life and imposed a fine of Rs 16 lakh on him. Following this, Chhota Rajan has now been found guilty in seven cases, including six in Mumbai.