Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail on medical grounds to builder Vinod Asrani who is one of the accused in the journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case of 2011. Asrani had approached the high court seeking the relief on the ground that his health was deteriorating and he needs immediate liver transplant.
Senior counsel Adhik Shirodkar, appearing for the accused, told the court that Asrani's liver was severely damaged and he needs to undergo surgery. A division bench of Justices VM Kanade and PD Kode accepted the argument and granted him bail on a cash bond of Rs 50,000.
Ever since his arrest in July last year, Asrani got admitted to state-run J J Hospital on several times. Asrani and others, including journalist Jigna Vora, have been booked under the stringent provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act in the murder case.
He is accused of calling Dey to a suburban hotel and identifying him to the shooters of gangster Chhota Rajan who allegedly shot the senior scribe dead in suburban Powai on June 11, 2011....
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09:01 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Mumbai: Over a fortnight after she was granted bail by the special MCOCA court in journalist J Dey murder case, scribe Jigna Vora has finally walked out of the prison, sources said on Monday. "Vora was released on Saturday from jail after completing the necessary formalities," said a source at Byculla jail, where she was lodged since her arrest. Vora was granted bail on July 27 by the court on...
11:20 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Mumbai: The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Thursday rejected the bail application of Paulson Joseph, an alleged Chota Rajan aide, arrested in connection with the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. According to the police, Paulson had supplied mobile SIM cards to the shooters who were in touch with Rajan by phone. Paulson, in his now retracted confession, had said that journalist Jigna Vora -...
08:20 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Mumbai: Journalist Jigna Vora, an accused in the murder of senior crime reporter J Dey, was granted bail by a Mumbai court on Friday. Vora was arrested in November 25, 2011 and was in judicial custody. J Dey, a senior crime journalist with MiD Day, was shot dead in Mumbai on June 11, 2011 by four bike-borne assailants. Vora, Deputy Chief of Bureau of Asian Age, was the eleventh arrested...
05:58 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: A sessions court in Mumbai on Monday will hear the bail plea of Jigna Vora, prime accused in the murder of journalist J Dey. Vora faces charges of criminal conspiracy and mobile phone records were recently submitted before the court as evidence. The police believe the murder may be related to Dey's reporting on the oil mafia and professional rivalry between him and Vora. Vora was arrested on...
07:16 AM, Jul 23, 2012
Mumbai: A Sessions court posted for hearing till Monday the bail plea of Jigna Vora, prime accused in the Jyotirmoy Dey murder case. Meanwhile, six mobile phone records were submitted in court in the form of a CD. Jigna Vora has been accused of playing a major role in the murder of the Mid Day journalist, who was shot dead in Mumbai on June 11, 2011, by four bike-borne assailants....
02:36 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: A court on Saturday adjourned till July 17 its order on journalist Jigna Vora's bail plea in the Jyotirmoy Dey murder case. Vora was arrested on November 25, 2011, on charges of criminal conspiracy in the murder case. J Dey, a senior crime journalist with MiD Day, was shot dead in Mumbai on June 11, 2011, by four bike-borne assailants. The police believe the murder may be related...
01:13 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Mumbai: It was near the Hiranandani chowk in Mumbai that MiD DAY crime investigations editor J Dey was gunned down exactly a year ago. In a gesture that will hopefully expunge some of the trauma of the memory and supplant it with respect for the triumphant life that preceded it, Niranjan Hiranandani, MD of Hiranandani Group, has announced that he will name the square outside DMart after Dey. The square...
12:46 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Why did the police believe Chhota Rajans story that journalist Jigna Vora instigated him? Rajan repented his actions in TV interviews. It is our job to lay the evidence we gather before the court. Now the Court will decide whether to believe him or not. How does carrying conflicting stories amount to a rivalry between J Dey and Jigna Vora? Sources are valuable to journalists. There is resentment when a...
02:39 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Mumbai: Investigations into the murder case of MiD DAY journalist J Dey began just a few hours after his killing, when sleuths began combing the scene of crime in Powai for clues. In the days that followed the murder, they scoured Deys email account, his phone records, interrogated hundreds of acquaintances, eyewitnesses, informants and operators. They gathered CCTV footage from the store outside which Dey had been slain, and obtained...
02:26 PM, Jun 11, 2012
'They got you in the heart, where I lived'. That was the first thought of Shubha Sharma, wife of MiD DAY's investigations editor J Dey, when she first heard the news that her husband had been shot dead. On his first death anniversary, she recalls her life with her 'superhero' and reveals why the killers could never really reach his heart. "When I was told about the bullets that pierced...
01:59 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Mumbai: A special MCOCA court on Wednesday allowed jailed scribe Jigna Vora, who was arrested in connection with the 2011 senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case, to get home-cooked food on health grounds. The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Wednesday approved the application filed earlier by Vora, currently lodged in the Byculla jail in Mumbai, seeking home-made food. The deputy Chief of Bureau of a city-based...
09:44 PM, May 16, 2012
Mumbai: In a setback to Assistant Commissioner of Police Anil Mahabole who is accused of raping and threatening a woman, the Sessions Court in Mumbai on Thursday refused to grant him anticipatory bail. Additional Sessions Judge S D Kulkarni after hearing the arguments of prosecution and defence held that the allegations against Mahabole were of serious nature and that the case was registered against him after an internal enquiry was...
08:57 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Mumbai: An FIR was on Tuesday registered against a senior police officer on charge of raping a middle-aged housewife after an internal enquiry concluded his role in the crime, police said. The woman had approached top brass of the city police few weeks ago complaining against Assistant Police Commissioner Anil Mahabole that he had raped and blackmailed her for the past eight months, they said. According to police, the woman...
11:14 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: A special MCOCA Court on Monday opened the statements given by two key witnesses on journalist Jigna Vora, one of the accused in the murder of veteran crime reporter J Dey in Mumbai in 2011. The witnesses - a staffer from the Administration Department of English daily 'Asian Age' (where Vora was working at the time of her arrest) and a friend of another accused Paulson Joseph - had...
01:23 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: After the Mumbai Crime Branch filed a supplementary chargesheet against Jigna Vora in the J Dey murder case on February 21, MiD DAY has acquired a copy of a crucial transcript of a conversation between underworld don Chhota Rajan and a relative of one of the accused. In the exchange, the don is heard mentioning that Vora would call him up frequently to draw his attention to Dey's loyalties....
01:30 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Mumbai: Journalist Jigna Vora on Tuesday was charged under sections of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), Arms Act and Bombay Police Act in J Dey murder case. The Crime Branch filed a supplementary chargesheet detailing the role allegedly played by Vora in the murder of Mumbai-based journalist. Vora has been accused of criminal conspiracy in the case and was arrested on November 25, 2011. The police believe the...
12:59 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Mumbai: The Crime Branch is likely to file a supplementary chargesheet detailing the role allegedly played by journalist Jigna Vora in the murder of Mumbai-based journalist J Dey. "We are likely to file a supplementary chargesheet against Vora tomorrow (Tuesday). We have gathered enough evidence against her to make a case," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Devendra Bharti said. Vora has been accused of criminal conspiracy in the case...
09:23 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai police are likely to file a charge sheet against woman journalist Jigna Vora on Tuesday in the murder of senior scribe J Dey who was shot dead in June last year, an official said. "We are likely to file a supplementary charge sheet against Vora on Tuesday. We have gathered enough evidence against her to make a case," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Devendra Bharti told. Vora,...
01:34 AM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: A Mumbai court on Monday extended the judicial custody of the accused in journalist Jyotirmoy Deys murder case till February 14. Journalist Jigna Vora was among those who appeared in the court on Monday. J Dey, a senior crime journalist with MiD Day, was shot dead on June 11 last year near his residence in Powai, central Mumbai by motorcycle-borne assailants. Vora stands accused of providing information about...
07:15 PM, Jan 30, 2012
