New Delhi: CBI has taken over investigations&nbsp;in the four-year old murder case of senior journalist J Dey&nbsp;in Mumbai, making it first of the 71 cases, referred to it by&nbsp;Maharashtra Government against gangster Chhota Rajan, to be&nbsp;probed by it.
The FIR registered by CBI does not name Chhota Rajan as a&nbsp;suspect because according to the rules, CBI re-registers FIR&nbsp;filed by local police.
Since Mumbai Police did not name Chhota Rajan in its FIR&nbsp;and included his role as an accused only at charge sheet&nbsp;stage, CBI also re-registered the FIR to initiate its probe.
After Chhota Rajan was nabbed in Bali on Interpol Red&nbsp;Notice in November last year and was brought to Delhi by CBI&nbsp;on December 6, 2015, Maharashtra Government had transferred&nbsp;all the 71 cases against him to the Central agency.
The murder of mid-day crime and investigation editor&nbsp;56-year old Jyotirmoy Dey was one of the prominent cases in&nbsp;which Rajan's had was suspected. Dey was shot dead by&nbsp;motorcycle-borne shooters on June 11, 2011 at 15.30 hours,&nbsp;allegedly at the behest of Rajan.
Four persons on two mobikes fired at least four to five&nbsp;rounds at Dey, who was also riding a bike, from behind near&nbsp;Spectra Building at D Mart in Hiranandani area of Powai.
After the attack, he was rushed to nearby Hiranandani&nbsp;hospital where he was declared brought dead. Police had&nbsp;claimed the shooters fled the spot after firing.
Mumbai Police had filed charge sheet against Chhota Rajan&nbsp;and his aide Nayan Singh Bisht, shown as absconding, Rohee&nbsp;Thangappan Joseph alias Satish Kalya, Abhijeet Shinde, Arun&nbsp;Dake, Sachin Gaikwad, Anil Waghmode, Nilesh Shendge, Mangesh&nbsp;Agawane, Vinod Asrani, Paulson Joseph and Deepak Sisodia under&nbsp;MCOCA charges in 2011.
The police had also charge sheeted another journalist&nbsp;Jigna Vora and another accused Deepak Sisodia in 2012.&nbsp;According to the 3,055-page charge sheet, Vora allegedly&nbsp;instigated Rajan to execute Dey owing to professional rivalry.
Police said Chhota Rajan, who was upset with two articles&nbsp;written by Dey that purportedly portrayed him in bad light,&nbsp;is suspected to have ordered his elimination.
In a statement, CBI Press Information Officer R K Gaur&nbsp;said the agency took up the investigation of the case which&nbsp;was earlier registered at Powai Police Station in Mumbai (FIR&nbsp;No. 256/2011 dated 11.6.2011).&nbsp;
"The Maharashtra Police has filed charge sheet against ten&nbsp;accused persons on December 03, 2011 and also showing two&nbsp;persons as 'wanted accused' and further filed supplementary&nbsp;charge sheet against one accused on February 21, 2012 in the&nbsp;designated court at Mumbai," Gaur said.&nbsp;

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CBI has taken over investigations&nbsp;in the four-year old murder case of senior journalist J Dey&nbsp;in Mumbai, making it first of the 71 cases, referred to it by&nbsp;Maharashtra Government against gangster Chhota Rajan, to be&nbsp;probed by it

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