India, July 2 -- A tight security circle comprising more than 25 Delhi Police personnel and armed guards escorted gangster Neeraj Bawana from Tihar Jail to RLKC Hospital and Metro Heart Institute in Shadipur on Tuesday, a day after the Delhi high court granted him a six-hour custodial parole to visit his ailing wife.

The 35-year-old gangster, who is involved in over 30 cases of murder and extortion and runs a gang from inside the jail, was only allowed to meet his wife and a doctor.

Bawana, who was one of the most wanted criminals, was arrested in 2015 by the Special Cell. According to police, he had links with Fazal Ur Rehman, a close associate of gangster Dawood, and gangsters who had ties with Canada-based fugitive Arsh Dalla and Har...