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Mumbai, May 2: Gangster Chhota Rajan has been convicted in the journalist Jyotirmoy Dey (J Dey) murder case. The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Court in Mumbai acquitted journalists Jigna Vora and Joseph Paulsen in the case. Dey was shot dead on June 11, 2011 in the Powai area of Mumbai.
The court had, on August 31, 2017, framed charges against Rajan. According to the chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Rajan had the veteran crime reporter killed because he was miffed with some articles written by Dey, and also because a planned book of Dey’s portrayed Rajan as a ‘chindi’ (petty) criminal.
Rajan was arrested at the Bali airport in Indonesia on October 25, 2015, and deported to India.
Rajan had in January this year denied the allegations, and claimed that police, politicians and his friend-turned-foe and fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim were behind the spate of ‘false cases’ registered against him. He had told the court that when he was part of Dawood Ibrahim’s gang (till 1993), not a single case was registered against him. “Later, police, politicians and Dawood connived to frame me in false cases,” he had said.
Rajan had denied that he had got Dey killed because the journalist was defaming him through his articles. “It is false (to say) that I killed Dey,” Rajan had said in his statement.
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