[3] Rajan was extradited from Bali to India on 6 November 2015 after 27 years on the run and is currently awaiting trials for ongoing cases in custody.

[citation needed] Rajan went to Dubai — his family is still here, apart from his wife in 1989 to attend the wedding of Noora, Ibrahim's brother.

The Ibrahim-Rajan party was over, the messy end coming in September 2000, with Chhota Shakeel's attack on Rajan in his Bangkok hotel room.

[14] Acting on a tip-off from Australian police, Indonesian authorities detained Rajan on Sunday as he arrived in Bali from Sydney.

Sharad, used his links with Mumbai-based hotelier Vinod and A. Mishra to track down Rajan in the city,[20] Dawood's aide Chhota Shakeel then led the hit.

[20] While the killings of Vinod and Sunil Soans did not significantly disrupt D-Company, on 19 January 2003, Rajan's associates then gunned down Sharad – Dawood's chief finance manager and money-laundering agent – at the India Club in Dubai.

His younger brother Deepak Nikalje is associated with Republican Party of India of MP Ramdas Athawale.

[10] The 2002 Bollywood film, Company had a character Chandu, portrayed by actor Vivek Oberoi, with some resemblances of Chhota Rajan with real-life Dawood Ibrahim gang.

On 25 October 2015, Rajan was captured in Bali, Indonesia where Indian authorities contacted Interpol for deporting him back to India.

The capture took place due to a tip-off by Australian police stating that Rajan had travelled to Bali with an Indian passport by the name Mohan Kumar.

[16] According to CBI sources, the underworld don was standing in a queue at the airport when the immigration authorities asked him to step aside and reveal his name.

To this, the gangster first gave his original name Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, and then immediately corrected himself to say, Mohan Kumar, the name mentioned on his passport.

[25] A special CBI Court in New Delhi on 25 April 2017 awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment to Rajan and three other accused in the fake passport case.

[26] The Maharashtra MCOCA court found Chhota Rajan aka Abhay guilty of the murder of journalist J. Dey on 2 May 2018 and handed him life imprisonment.

[5] The Maharashtra MCOCA court found Chhota Rajan guilty of the murder of hotelier Jaya Shetty and handed him rigorous life imprisonment on 30 May 2024.