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
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
New Delhi: Journalist Jigna Vora and others accused in the J Dey murder case are likely to be produced in a Mumbai court as their judicial custody ends on Monday. The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on January 16 had 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...
08:00 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Meerut: A case has been registered in a local court in Meerut against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for allegedly saying that terror activities are on the rise due to influx of north Indians. Uttar Pradesh Navnirman Sena leader Amit Jani filed the case in the court of Additional Sessions Judge AK Mishra. The next hearing for the case is scheduled on February 3. Thackeray had attacked north...
11:35 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Mumbai: The judicial custody of all the eleven accused in the Jyotirmoy Dey murder case is set to end on Monday. A special MCOCA court will decide on extending their custody. J Dey, a crime and ivestigation journalist with MiD Day, was shot dead outside his house at Powai in Mumbai on June 11, 2011. Apparently, underworld don Chhota Rajan had ordered his killing. The eleven accused include woman journalist...
08:41 AM, 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: The judicial custody of Jinga Vora, arrested in connection with the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, will end on Tuesday. Vora is the eleventh accused held in the murder of the senior journalist who was killed on June 1. Vora was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch for conspiring, and aiding and abetting the murder of Dey. Vora, along with Paulson Joseph, an alleged member of the Chhota...
07:48 AM, Dec 20, 2011
Ahmedabad: Mumbai crime branch officials have questioned two police officials and a couple of journalists in the city in connection with the Mid Day tabloid journalist J Dey murder case, city police said on Thursday. The questioning took place in the last 3-4 days when the Mumbai police team came to city as mobile phone call records showed the one of the accused Jigna Vora, who was arrested last month,...
09:58 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Mumbai: In the latest development in the J Dey murder case, investigators have revealed that journalist Jigna Vora, the eleventh suspect arrested in the case, was in touch with four other accused, including the two shooters who gunned down MiD DAY's Investigations Editor near his residence in Powai on June 11 earlier this year. "Though Vora had confessed to meeting the four accused, she has been constantly changing her statements...
01:30 PM, 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
New Delhi: The accused in Mid Day journalist J Dey murder case, Jigna Vora will be produced in a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court as her custody ends on Thursday. Vora was arrested last week and was booked under several charges, including Sections 302 (murder), 120 (B) (conspiracy), 34 (acts done by several persons), 201 (giving false information) of the IPC, Sections 3, 25 and 27 of...
08:07 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Mumbai: City police probing the killing of veteran reporter J Dey on Saturday searched the residence of journalist Jigna Vora who was arrested in the case on Friday and seized her laptop. A team of investigators searched the residence of Vora in suburban Ghatkopar and her laptop was seized, said a crime branch official. Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy confirmed that Vora's laptop was confiscated but refused to divulge...
06:28 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Mumbai: It was none other than Chhota Rajan's phone calls after J Dey's murder that ultimately led to journalist Jigna Vora's arrest yesterday, according to Crime Branch officials. Jigna (37), the deputy bureau chief of Asian Age, has been booked under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for aiding underworld don Chhota Rajan in the crime by sending him Dey's personal details. Sources revealed that soon after bike-borne...
01:47 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Mumbai: City police probing the killing of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey on Sunday said that the reporter might have had met underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's key aide Iqbal Mirchi in April in London. After the reporter's murder, police initially had parried questions whether Dey had met Iqbal Memon alias Iqbal Mirchi in London during his visit there. The police did not even confirm Memon's presence in London. However, with the...
12:35 PM, Oct 16, 2011
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