Popular food content creator, Rajani Jain, a.k.a Chatori Rajani, is slowly picking up the pieces of her life after facing the unimaginable loss of losing her 16-year-old son, Taran Jain, in an accident. Her son passed away in February 2025 while returning home from his tuition like any other regular day with an unexpected end. The loss of their only son left Rajani and her husband shattered, and now, after four months, she opened up in detail about how things unfolded on that unfortunate day and the aftermath after Rajani shared the devastating news with her followers who knew about her son, Taran, through her videos.
Rajani recalls how she got to know about her son’s demise
Rajani Jain, who is popular for sharing tiffin recipes and her unique vegetarian take on global dishes, is gradually resuming her work after losing her son in a shocking incident. Four months after his demise, she recently sat down for a conversation on Talks With Namit and recalled how she found out about her son’s demise. She revealed that there was no CCTV camera at the spot where their son met with an accident. A man, despite facing opposition from passers-by, picked up her son while another person stopped his car and took them to hospital.
They broke all the traffic signals and reached the hospital within 8 minutes, but before that, their son had already given up on life. Rajani, who wasn’t in the city, sent her son’s friends and other people she knew to the hospital when she came to know about the incident. It included Rajani’s manager who considered Tarun as her younger brother and went with her father to the hospital. Rajani’s husband, Sangeet’s office was 45 minutes away, and before he reached there, the content creator took updates from her manager. Recalling the situation, she said:
“I kept calling her to ask for updates, so she couldn’t handle it. His father was with her, and he clearly said I remember ki, ‘Sister understand one thing he is no more.’ Maine video call kiya I told that I wanted to see him, they showed me a glimpse where he was on stretcher and someone ended the call. Before my husband went, I knew he was no more. I was at my friend’s home. I shouted, cried, and even broke my phone. My husband was crying, and he lied that our son was in ICU, but I knew it.”
Rajani Jain shares people made bizarre speculations about her son’s demise
In the same conversation, Rajani shared that initially, she wanted to ask her followers, whom she considers her family, for their prayers for her son’s moksh. So, she shared a post to announce his demise on her Facebook. But, her family made her delete it yet everyone knew until then. Soon, the situation spiralled and her social media was flooded with concerning texts, calls, false videos, and insensitive theories. Sharing why she felt the need to share a video on it, the food content creator said:
“Toh maine subah 5 base uthkar I recorded kyuki itna zyaada pressure tha, I recorded. Uss time mere team mein itne zyaada log nahi the.”
Rajani revealed that Youtubers and online pages ran baseless theories like she was hiding something and they had skipped the legal process of investigation. But the truth is that Rajani and her husband have no idea what exactly happened on that day. Now, they don’t even feel like knowing about it because they won’t be able to do anything. However, despite that, the police are doing their work. Talking about the same, Rajani said:
“Police are doing their work. People had a lot of questions. Some made videos on YouTube that the body didn’t come home; it went to the crematorium from the hospital, and we are like, do you know? Our son came home, and we didn’t shoot that thing because it was personal. Some one speculated parents did something because there is no police case, like how did they know by sitting at home.”
We sent our heartfelt condolences to Rajani Jain and her family.
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