<p> Security has been stepped up in and around Jail no 2 of Tihar prison where underworld don Chhota Rajan was lodged yesterday after being remanded in a 14 -day judicial custody.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"The jail authorities have been asked to minutely screen the area and maintain maximum security. A team of 10 head warders, 10 warders, one deputy superintendent and two assistant superintendents has been drawn for the purpose from different jails," a senior prison official said.<br /><br />"The DG has also briefed the staff and warned that no breach of security will be tolerated," he added.<br /><br />Rajan was yesterday brought to the high-security Tihar jail after being sent to 14 days judicial custody by court as CBI decided to take over all the 71 cases registered by Maharashtra Police against him.<br /><br />"Rajan has furnished the names of his wife and a friend in Mumbai in his visitors' list," the official said.<br /><br />The ITBP and CRPF, which take care of the security outside the prison, have increased their surveillance to ensure that nothing is smuggled to him on the premises.<br /><br />Deported after being on the run for 27 years, the 55-year-old gangster, whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, was remanded to CBI custody in connection with his passport procured on a fake identity.<br /><br />Rajan, once a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, has been brought to the country to face trial in over 70 cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling in Delhi and Mumbai.<br /><br />After his arrest in Bali on October 25, India had pressed for his early deportation. <br /></p>
<p> Security has been stepped up in and around Jail no 2 of Tihar prison where underworld don Chhota Rajan was lodged yesterday after being remanded in a 14 -day judicial custody.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"The jail authorities have been asked to minutely screen the area and maintain maximum security. A team of 10 head warders, 10 warders, one deputy superintendent and two assistant superintendents has been drawn for the purpose from different jails," a senior prison official said.<br /><br />"The DG has also briefed the staff and warned that no breach of security will be tolerated," he added.<br /><br />Rajan was yesterday brought to the high-security Tihar jail after being sent to 14 days judicial custody by court as CBI decided to take over all the 71 cases registered by Maharashtra Police against him.<br /><br />"Rajan has furnished the names of his wife and a friend in Mumbai in his visitors' list," the official said.<br /><br />The ITBP and CRPF, which take care of the security outside the prison, have increased their surveillance to ensure that nothing is smuggled to him on the premises.<br /><br />Deported after being on the run for 27 years, the 55-year-old gangster, whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, was remanded to CBI custody in connection with his passport procured on a fake identity.<br /><br />Rajan, once a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, has been brought to the country to face trial in over 70 cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling in Delhi and Mumbai.<br /><br />After his arrest in Bali on October 25, India had pressed for his early deportation. <br /></p>