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Rajan used emergency exit to flee: PTI

Bombay gangster Chhota Rajan used the emergency exit at the Samitivej hospital to walk out to freedom after paying 25 million baht (Rs 25 million) to a 'two-star' Thai officer, the mobster's former lawyer Sirichai Piyapichetkul claimed on Saturday.

The lawyer claimed that Rajan telephoned him from somewhere in the southern province of Thailand near the sea at 0030 hours local time and told him that he used the emergency exit to escape.

The Thai police had said that Rajan alias Vijay Kadam used knotted bed-sheets to climb down from the window of his hospital room.

"Do you believe that story?" Rajan asked his former lawyer.

According to Sirichai, the gangster told him that his body was too heavy to do so and that he used emergency exit to escape. Sirichai said Rajan told him that "it was the right decision to flee... He had been held unlawfully by the Thai police."

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