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
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday dropped MCOCA charges against gangster Abu Salem. The High Court accepted the Delhi Police plea to drop the charges. Delhi Police had said the charges violate Salem's extradition rules. The Portugal court wanted MCOCA removed if Salem's extradition was to stand. "The petition of Delhi Police is allowed. The order dated August 28, 2009 passed by the designated lower court is set aside....
05:19 PM, May 11, 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
New Delhi: A Mumbai sessions court will resume its hearing of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur's bail plea on Saturday. Thakur is the prime accused in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast case. Thakur who has been denied bail thrice claims she's been falsely implicated in the matter. Sadhvi Pragya has sought bail on the grounds that no 'specific role' in the blast has been attributed to her. In her plea, she also...
06:47 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court would hear on March 29 a city police plea for dropping stringent MCOCA charges against gangster Abu Salem whose extradition was terminated recently by the Portuguese Supreme Court on the ground of alleged violation of extradition terms by India. Justice Sudarshan Kumar Mishra slated for hearing on March 29 Delhi Police petitions, declining a government counsel's request that the matter be heard as the...
06:53 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Mumbai: Mother of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, prime accused in the September 2008 Malegaon blast case, said on Tuesday that her daughter had been "falsely implicated" and was "innocent". "My daughter cannot even kill a worm and this is not what is taught to her. She cannot not commit any such act," Sarla Devi, who came to meet her daughter at the women's jail in Byculla in Mumbai, told reporters....
05:36 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: A Special Judge of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court is scheduled to hear Sadhvi Pragya Thakur's bail application on Saturday. Thakur who has been denied bail thrice claims she's been falsely implicated in the matter. She is the main accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast that killed 6 people and injured 100 others. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will is opposing her petition. ...
07:53 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Mumbai: The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Monday extended the judicial custody of all the arrested accused, including journalist Jigna Vora, in the J Dey murder case till January 30. Vora, former deputy chief of bureau of `Asian Age' daily, was arrested on November 25 on a charge of providing vital information about Jyotirmoy Dey, a senior journalist, to gangster Chhota Rajan who had allegedly...
08:16 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai police's crime branch on Tuesday filed the reply opposing the bail applications of two accused in the journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case. "We filed the reply saying that we are opposing the bail," said special public prosecutor, Dileep Shah. The applications, filed by Anil Waghmode and Deepak Sisodia, would come up for hearing at the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court after two weeks. Jigna...
06:59 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Mumbai: A special MCOCA court on Tuesday extended judicial custody of journalist Jigna Vora and 12 other accused in the J Dey murder case till January 16. Vora was on November 25 arrested in connection with the murder case of Mid-Day senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. Dey was shot dead outside his house at Powai in Mumbai on June 11, 2011. The police had arrested seven persons on June 27: Rohee...
02:56 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Mumbai: Journalist Jigna Vora and ten other accused are likely to be produced in a special MCOCA court as the judicial custody of the accused in the J Dey Murder case ends on Tuesday. Vora was on November 25 arrested in connection with the murder case of Mid-Day senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. Dey was shot dead outside his house at Powai in Mumbai on June 11, 2011. The police had...
09:05 AM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: A Special Judge of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court is scheduled to hear Sadhvi Pragya Thakur's bail application on Thursday. She is the main accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast that killed 6 people and injured 100 others. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will file its response to her bail application on the next date. In October early this year the Supreme Court had...
08:58 AM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: The special MCOCA court is expected to hear Sadhvi Pragya Thakur's bail application on Monday. Sadhvi Pragya Thakur is one of the main accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. In October, the Supreme OCurt had rejected her bail application. The NIA is likely to reply on the application. ...
08:30 AM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: Mumbai Crime Branch filed chargesheet against 10 of the 11 accused and mentioned underworld don Chhota Rajan and Nayan Singh as absconding accused on Saturday. A supplementary chargesheet will be filed against journalist Jigna Vora in the case later. On Friday, a man had approached MCOCA court to hand over four cell phones and SIM cards allegedly used by Vora. Vora's police custody has been extended to December...
12:19 PM, Dec 03, 2011
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