Thaindian News

Mumbai, Nov 25 (IANS) A Mumbai court Friday remanded a woman reporter in police custody till Dec 1 in connection with the June 11 killing of the city’s senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey.

Jigna Vora, a journalist with Mumbai’s English newspaper Asian Age, was Friday morning summoned by the Crime Branch for investigations into the Dey murder case and later placed under arrest.

She had allegedly provided Dey’s mobile number and his exact location to mafia don Chhota Rajan, who lives abroad in self-exile, police said.

Rajan later in an interview to a private TV channel owned up responsibility for organising Dey’s killing.

Vora has worked with several Mumbai-based newspapers and is the eighth person to be arrested in the case.

She has now been remanded in police custody till Dec 1 by the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court.

Dey, Mid Day’s editor (special investigations), was gunned down near his residence in Powai, central Mumbai, by motorcycle borne assailants.

Though she has been described as friendly with the late Dey, media persons are at a loss to fathom what could have motivated Vora to leak information about a senior professional colleague, as claimed by the police.