New Delhi, July 30 -- A special CBI court in Chennai on Thursday awarded a seven-year jail term to gangster Chhota Rajan for procuring a passport using forged documents, officials said.

The conviction followed a 22-year-long legal proceedings, during which the CBI established that Rajan had obtained the passport by using the identity of Vijaya Kadam and submitting fabricated documents, including a school transfer certificate and ration card.

"The convict, Chota Rajan, is presently lodged in Tihar Jail, New Delhi, where he is already undergoing rigorous imprisonment for life," a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.

The agency began its probe on March 19, 2002, after registering an FIR on the allegations that the accused applied for and...