J Dey murder: Supplementary chargesheet filed against Vora, Sisodia

Mumbai: The Mumbai crime branch yesterday filed a supplementary chargesheet against scribe Jigna Vora and another accused Deepak Sisodia in journalist J Dey murder case, a day after his first death anniversary. The crime branch has attached a page of attendance register of the month of June 2011 with the 120-page chargesheet filed in the MCOCA Court here showing that Vora was on leave from 9 June 2011 to 19 June 2011. Dey was killed on 11 June. [caption id=“attachment_341673” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Journalist J Dey was shot dead in suburban Powai on 11 June 2011 by motorcycle-borne assailants.”] [/caption] Vora, the deputy chief of bureau of a city-based English newspaper, was arrested on 25 November last year under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) for complicity in murder of the senior journalist on 11 June last year. Fugitive underworld don Chhota Rajan is said to be behind the killing. Vora is accused of passing on key information like the number plate of Dey’s motorcycle and his residential address to Chhota Rajan. “Vora did not inform me before she proceeded for leave neither she called me when she was not reporting to work,” said the attendance keeper of the newspaper in which Vora worked. The chargesheet strengthens the prosecution case against arrested accused Deepak Sisodia and also names people who provided SIM cards to him, crime branch sources said. “Sisodia used two mobiles phones to talk to Rohit Thangappan Joseph alias Satish Kalya and absconding accused Nayansingh Bisht”, they said, adding the chargesheet also intends to make a watertight case against Sisodia and seeks to plug the loopholes in the case against him. Police had filed the first chargesheet on 3 December 2011 against arrested accused Kalya, Abhijeet Shinde, Arun Dake, Sachin Gaikwad, Anil Waghmode, Nilesh Shendge, Mangesh Agawane, Vinod Asrani, Paulson Joseph and Deepak Sisodia. A separate chargesheet was later filed against Vora. As per the 3,055-page chargesheet, the woman scribe allegedly instigated Rajan to execute Dey owing to professional rivalry. According to police, Chhota Rajan, who was upset with two articles written by Dey, which purportedly portrayed him in bad light, had ordered the hit. Dey was shot dead in suburban Powai on 11 June 2011 by motorcycle-borne assailants. PTI