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 to Dey's reporting on the oil mafia.
Vora, Deputy Chief of Bureau of Asian Age, was arrested under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) on charges of supplying licence plate number of Dey's motorcycle and his address to dreaded mafia Chhota Rajan just a day before his murder.
According to police sources, Vora's name had figured in the telephonic conversations, the records of which are with the police now, between her and Rajan....
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01:13 PM, Jul 07, 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: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet in the Malegaon Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane murder case. In its chargesheet the CBI alleges that investigations show there was prior enmity between Popat Sinde and Yashwant Sonawne. The CBI chargesheet also mentions that the Anti Corruption Bureau, Nashik, was investigating a complaint against Sonwane filed by Shinde. Shinde alleged that Sonawane had sought a bribe of Rs one...
03:21 PM, Oct 11, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said that investigators will inquire into the oil mafia angle in the Jyotirmoy Dey murder case. Chavan on Tuesday had said that all leads were pointing to the involvement of the oil mafia in the journalist's murder. Reacting to initial reports about the oil mafia's involvement, Chavan said it's for the investigators to decide if the oil mafia is behind the killing....
08:30 PM, Jun 14, 2011
Mumbai: The police on Monday finally released a sketch of the person who could have been involved in the killing of Mumbai journalist, Jyotirmoy Dey. The assailant, according to the sketch, looks like man in his 20's. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told a 15 member delegation of the press that leads were pointing to the oil mafia. Senior journalist Gurbir Singh said, "The CM has specifically said we understand that...
11:28 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday claimed that the leads in Mid Day journalist Jyotirmoy Dey's murder case point towards the involvement of the oil mafia. Chavan met a delegation of Mumbai journalists and told them that Dey was on the verge of exposing the oil mafia. Rejecting the demand for an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Chavan said that the state police should be...
03:26 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Malegaon Addition DC Yashwant Sonawane was burnt alive by an oil mafia on January 25.
03:54 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Mumbhai: The oil mafia in Maharasthra attacked a Network18 reporter and cameraman on Friday. A reporter and cameraman belonging to IBN Lokmat team was attacked by supporters of the oil mafia in the remote village of Murud in Maharashtra' Raigad district. The reporter Alka and video journalist Sandeep were beaten up by a mob, but were later rescued. While there were no serious injuries, their camera was taken away and...
05:54 PM, Mar 12, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP on Wednesday demanded CBI probe into the murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane at the hands of adulteration mafia. A delegation of BJP leaders led by Eknath Khadse met the Governor K Sankaranarayanan on Wednesday and put forward the demand. Khadse also demanded a white paper on externment cases in recent years. "The local police and bureaucrats are hand in gloves with mafia. It is difficult to...
09:13 PM, Feb 02, 2011
Nagpur: The oil adulteration mafia has attacked policemen yet again in Maharashtra. A kerosene seller along with his men attacked policemen during a search operation in Umred tehsil of Nagpur district of the state on Tuesday morning. The incident happened at Rajurwadi, which is a stronghold of the Pardhi community, under the jurisdiction of Umred police station. A police team under Umred Deputy Superintendent of Police Sudhakar Paladurkar went to...
11:58 AM, Feb 01, 2011
Mumbai: Some of the accused in Yashwant Sonawane murder case have alleged in statements to police that the slain officer had demanded a 'bribe' to settle the matter when he spotted oil adulteration near Manmad on January 25. The police, however, said such counter-accusations are common. The investigating officers have recorded statements of the ten accused who are in police lock-up, while the main accused Popat Shinde's statement is yet...
03:47 PM, Jan 30, 2011
Mumbai: First it was Yashwant Sonawane who was doused with Kerosene and now just days after its the turn of another officer who has been attacked but lucky to have survived. Srinivas Patil was attacked while chasing the notorious sand mafia. Srinivas Patil said, "I tried to stop them but they threatened to kill me." The government in a massive crackdown against oil and sand mafias has arrested close to...
07:38 AM, Jan 30, 2011
Mumbai: In the biggest seizure during the ongoing raids against oil mafia after the brutal killing of an Additional Collector, state officials have seized chemicals worth Rs one crore in Solapur district of Maharashtra. District supply officials seized four tankers along with the chemicals near the temple town of Pandharpur late on Friday night, sources said. With this seizure, officials have busted a major racket involving adulteration of chemicals transported...
09:21 AM, Jan 29, 2011
New Delhi: The new Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy is mulling the roll out of a fuel marker system to check kerosene adulteration. His ministry, sources say, is falling on the marker supplied by Authentix, a UK based company, the same marker that was at the center of a raging controversy a year back. The Authentix marker, used a year ago, was supposed to be the government’s weapon against the oil...
09:52 PM, Jan 28, 2011
New Delhi/Mumbai: A day after CNN-IBN aired the video allegedly shot by late Additional Collector of Malegaon Yashwant Sonawane in which he documented the operations of the kerosene mafia, Maharshtra's Home minister RR Patil says it is crucial evidence and will be submitted to the court. “The video will be fully examined and based on that next investigation will take place. It can be submitted as evidence in the court,”...
08:08 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Nasik: Fuel mafias went underground to avoid arrests after the crackdown on mafia networks began on Thursday in Maharashtra. However, raids on other consumer product (milk/fuel/illegal sand mining etc) adulterators are to be continued on Friday by local police teams of various districts. Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil had ordered the crackdown and asked the police to provide assistance to raiding parties on priority following the murder incident of Malegaon...
10:17 AM, Jan 28, 2011
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11:54 PM, Jan 27, 2011
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11:42 PM, Jan 27, 2011
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10:50 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Nashik: A few days after Yashwant Sonawane sacrificed his life gathering evidence against the oil Mafia in Maharashtra, CNN-IBN learns the chain of racketeers runs deep across the state with oil being pilfered at the very first level of its coming into the market. Sonawane was burnt alive in a dingy looking and seemingly insignificant dhabba in Manmad, Maharashtra. Locations such as these are safe heaven for the fuel mafia...
10:02 PM, Jan 27, 2011
