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.
According to police, two articles written by Dey against Rajan on May 31 and June 2 could have cost the journalist his life.
Though the first charge sheet filed in the case had not named Vora, police suspected that her professional rivalry with Dey could have led her to get involved in the sensational killing.
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