Mumbai, Sept. 16 :    Mumbai, Sept. 16:  He set out to be the saviour of Hindus, but ended up an ordinary gangster. As confusion prevailed over the murder of Chhota Rajan, shot in a Bangkok apartment yesterday by the hitmen of underworld king Dawood Ibrahim, his bete noire and former mentor, police sources revealed Rajan had fallen out with Dawood after the 1993 Mumbai blasts over 'the deaths of innocent Hindus'. Late tonight, home minister L.K. Advani said Rajan was still alive but grievously injured, adds UNI. Throughout the day, confusion had prevailed over the gangster's death. In Bangkok, a minister confirmed that he had died. But a senior police officer said Rajan was critically wounded in the shooting, but was still alive when he was admitted into the intensive care unit of a Bangkok hospital. Dawood, with his brother Anees and Mumbai builder Abdul Razzak 'Tiger' Menon, had reportedly planned the blasts that rocked the country's commercial capital, to avenge the death of Muslims in the '92-'93 Mumbai riots. As the police turned the heat on the underworld after the blasts and Dawood demanded his head, Rajan fled to Kualalumpur with his close associates and 'remote controlled' his Mumbai operations from there. Rajan 'owed' his career to Dawood. A Dalit from the eastern suburb of Chembur, Rajan graduated from a petty goon to an extortionist and later became a hitman under the wing of Dawood, 'who once viewed him as his younger brother,' a source said. Dawood and his wife Mehjabeen even reportedly helped Rajan to get married to his childhood sweetheart Kusum more than a decade ago. However, Chhota Shakeel, Dawood's right-hand man, who reportedly ordered the attack in Bangkok, called Rajan a 'rat'. He said Rajan was devious and deceptive and had cheated Dawood of a tidy sum in Dubai, before fleeing to Kualalumpur, a charge Rajan's associates denied. Sources said Rajan took up the cause of the Hindus to curry favour with the then ruling BJP and Shiv Sena, which were blamed for the riots by the Srikrishna commission. In published interviews, Rajan declared he snapped his relationship with Dawood to protest against the killings of 'innocent Hindus' in the blasts. As the Mumbai underworld became communalised in the wake of the blasts, Rajan and Dawood turned out to be 'saviours' of Hindus and Muslims respectively. Rajan's gang killed Salim Kurla and Mohammad Jindran, accused in the bomb blasts. Rajan also admitted to slaying Mirza Dilshad Beg, a Nepalese politician, for being an ISI agent and supplying explosives, including RDX, for the Mumbai blasts. 'I only kill those who are anti-India. I will kill all the accused in the Mumbai bomb blasts one by one. Let no one think that they can repeat such incidents or get away with such crimes,' Rajan had told an interviewer. Dawood retaliated, trying to kill then Shiv Sena mayor Milind Vaidya at his house in crowded Mahim in broad daylight. Vaidya, shot and critically injured, escaped narrowly, but two of his visitors were killed and several others were injured in the shooting. Dawood's gangmembers also killed one Shiv Sena leader and several other men in retaliation.