Bedsheets used in escape

Bedsheets used in escape

BANGKOK (AFP): Suspected Indian mob boss Chhota Rajan on Friday used knotted bedsheets to escape from the hospital room where he was being held in Thai police custody, officials said.

"He used beds sheet to escape from the fourth floor of the hospital this morning," said police Lt. Col. Worachart Rojchan.

Rajan was facing a bid to extradite him to India, where authorities want him to stand trial on 17 counts of murder and other mob-related charges.

New Delhi has revoked Rajan's passport on the grounds that his travel documents were not in order, and he was under provisional arrest in Bangkok.

Rajan was wounded in September by gunmen who burst into a Bangkok apartment and killed his associate Rohit Verma in what appeared to be a shooting ordered by Rajan's rival, Dubai-based gangster Dawood Ibrahim.