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Rajan had spilled the beans on scribe
Updated On: 26 November, 2011 06:28 AM IST | | Bhupen Patel and Vinay Dalvi
After J Dey was shot, the don called up some journalists and businessmen to tell them how Jigna Vora passed on information about the crime reporter to him, say Crime Branch sources
After J Dey was shot, the don called up some journalists and businessmen to tell them how Jigna Vora passed on information about the crime reporter to him, say Crime Branch sources
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.
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Sources revealed that soon after bike-borne assassins gunned down Dey on June 11 near his home in Powai, Rajan was irked by some media reports and made calls to a few scribes and businessmen in the city.
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In the course of the conversation, he named Jigna as the one who provided him with vital information on Dey.
"There are four to five such people (who were called by Rajan), including journalists and businessmen, all of whom have been made witnesses in the case.
We have recorded their statements on camera before the magistrate, under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC)," said a senior Crime Branch official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Based on the witnesses' statements, officials who had been questioning Jigna over the past few months picked her up from her Ghatkopar home around 10.30 am.
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