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Exactly 25 weeks after senior crime journalist J Dey was shot dead by gangsters in Mumbai, the police on Saturday filed a voluminous chargesheet against 12 accused, including fugitive gang lord Chhota Rajan.
The name of 37-year-old woman journalist Jigna Vora, whom police arrested on November 25 for her alleged role in Dey’s murder, did not figure in the 3,055-page chargesheet filed in the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court.
“Once we are through with the interrogation of Vora, we will file a supplementary chargesheet in which we will name her and dwell upon her role in the crime,” said Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy.
Rajan and one Nayansingh Pratapsingh Bisht who, along with another accused, had made available 0.32 bore US-made revolvers used in the crime, to the assailants, have been named as absconding accused.
Ten accused currently in investigators’ custody and whose names figure in the chargesheet are, sharpshooter Rohee Thangappan Joseph alias Satish Kalya, his aides Abhijeet Shinde, Arun Dake, Sachin Gaikwad, Anil Waghmode, Nilesh Shendge, Mangesh Agawane, Deepak Sisodia (who along with Bisht had given the weapon to Kalya), a city-based bookie Vinod Asrani and an expelled NCP worker Paulson Joseph.
According to Roy, the investigators have recorded the statements of as many as 176 witnesses. “Three persons have made statements before a magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC. Three of the accused have made voluntary confessions,” he said.
Meanwhile, Vora’s friend Murtaza Diwan has withdrawn an application made before the MCOCA court that he wanted to surrender three high-end mobile phones and a memory card that she had given him for safe-keeping. The apparent objective behind Murtaza filing the application was to seek anticipatory bail on grounds that he had no role to play in the case. Roy said the police would summon Murtaza for questioning and take possession of the three mobile phones.
“We relied heavily on technical evidence and records of the calls made by the accused to each other,” Roy said. Roy said that the police had a reason to suspect that the two pieces relating to Rajan that Dey had written in “Mid-day on May 30 and June 2, 2011 had annoyed the underworld gang lord.
The filing of charge-sheet in the Dey murder case has come after a prolonged but meticulous investigations carried out by the city crime sleuths, who were at one stage faced the threat of the case being taken away from them and handed to the CBI.
The name of 37-year-old woman journalist Jigna Vora, whom police arrested on November 25 for her alleged role in Dey’s murder, did not figure in the 3,055-page chargesheet filed in the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court.
“Once we are through with the interrogation of Vora, we will file a supplementary chargesheet in which we will name her and dwell upon her role in the crime,” said Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy.
Rajan and one Nayansingh Pratapsingh Bisht who, along with another accused, had made available 0.32 bore US-made revolvers used in the crime, to the assailants, have been named as absconding accused.
Ten accused currently in investigators’ custody and whose names figure in the chargesheet are, sharpshooter Rohee Thangappan Joseph alias Satish Kalya, his aides Abhijeet Shinde, Arun Dake, Sachin Gaikwad, Anil Waghmode, Nilesh Shendge, Mangesh Agawane, Deepak Sisodia (who along with Bisht had given the weapon to Kalya), a city-based bookie Vinod Asrani and an expelled NCP worker Paulson Joseph.
According to Roy, the investigators have recorded the statements of as many as 176 witnesses. “Three persons have made statements before a magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC. Three of the accused have made voluntary confessions,” he said.
Meanwhile, Vora’s friend Murtaza Diwan has withdrawn an application made before the MCOCA court that he wanted to surrender three high-end mobile phones and a memory card that she had given him for safe-keeping. The apparent objective behind Murtaza filing the application was to seek anticipatory bail on grounds that he had no role to play in the case. Roy said the police would summon Murtaza for questioning and take possession of the three mobile phones.
“We relied heavily on technical evidence and records of the calls made by the accused to each other,” Roy said. Roy said that the police had a reason to suspect that the two pieces relating to Rajan that Dey had written in “Mid-day on May 30 and June 2, 2011 had annoyed the underworld gang lord.
The filing of charge-sheet in the Dey murder case has come after a prolonged but meticulous investigations carried out by the city crime sleuths, who were at one stage faced the threat of the case being taken away from them and handed to the CBI.
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