Gujarati news TV scribe who talked with Chhota Rajan quizzed

Ahmedabad, 8 December 2011

Jigna Vora, one of the 11 accused in the murder of Mid Day editor(Investigations) J Dey had sold her phones at different places making them almost untraceable. She sold one phone in Ahmedabad according to a report.

Meanwhile, according to reports, the Mumbai Police Crime Branch camped in Gujarat for two days in connection with the J Dey murder probe and is believed to have questioned two scribes in Gujarat.

As per the detail available to DeshGujarat, one of them is team head in Gujarat news TV channel. Sources say, this journalist had moved to Ahmedabad from Mumbai before few months, and his first story on Gujarati TV channel was Chhota Rajan’s telephonic interview. He was earlier crime reporter in national news TV channel in Mumbai. After J.Dey’s murder this journalist left Ahmedabad for couple of days and was in Mumbai for sometime. Soon after joining a Gujarati channel, this TV journalist also went on Pakistan border tour according to sources.

Meanwhile Indian Express report says that according to sources this journalist in question was in regular contact with Mumbai-based journalist Jigna Vora, who was arrested on November 25 for her alleged role in the murder.

The report quoting the sources, further says: the local journalist is reported to have featured in Vora’s call list several times before and after Dey’s murder. The sources indicated that the journalist is reported to have provided details of Dey’s routine in Mumbai. He had allegedly helped Vora recce Dey’s movements, they said.

Ahmedabad police sources said their Mumbai counterparts have also found that Vora had traveled to Ahmedabad several times in July and August.

J Dey was shot dead by four bike-borne men in broad daylight on June 11. Vora was arrested for allegedly abetting Dey’s murder. She is accused of passing on the number of Dey’s motorcycle and his office and home addresses to fugitive gangster Chhota Rajan, who allegedly ordered the murder.