Investigative journalist shot dead in Mumbai

[Donatello]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Four gunmen shot dead a senior investigative journalist specialising in organised crime in the Indian city of Mumbai on Saturday, police said.

Jyotirmoy Dey, 50, was killed at 2:30 p.m. at his home in the city's Powai district, and the gunmen escaped on motorcycles, said the official, who did not wish to be identified.

Dey led a team of crime and investigative reporters at the Mid Day newspaper and had written books on different gangs involved in organised crime in Mumbai.

"He brought depth to our investigative reporting, and he conducted his journalism with honesty and integrity," Sachin Kalbag, executive editor of Mid Day, said in a statement.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said the assassination was a challenge to the freedom of the press.

Prithviraj Chavan, chief minister of the state of Maharashtra, said the government was determined to track down the assailants.

(Reporting by Mayank Bhardwaj; Editing by Kevin Liffey)



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[Spring Onion]

Indian Oil mafia is suspected for murdering this journalist for his probe in their unlawful activities

 

[Ajaxpaul]

load of crap comments by Indian State officials. Where are they going to track the assailants? Will they question 18 million people residing in mumbai? Idiots. RIP to the jurno.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

Mumbai police is going to get an oppurtunity to kick some as* after a long time . LOL

After the 90s

 

[Spring Onion]

load of crap comments by Indian State officials. Where are they going to track the assailants? Will they question 18 million people residing in mumbai? Idiots. RIP to the jurno.

They can start from suspected Indian Oil mafia and if they failed to question them then may be they will try to blame it on someone, some gang, some non Hindu entity

 

[Wonderer]

They can start from suspected Indian Oil mafia and if they failed to question them then may be they will try to blame it on someone, some gang, some non Hindu entity

You need some break.

 

[Spring Onion]

You need some break.

relax and wait.

for time being any insight on the incident ?

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

relax and wait.

for time being any insight on the incident ?

Yeah... too much hype from the media because it's one of their own who has suffered this time.

Lots of people have suffered the same fate without grabbing the same kind of attention.

Hypocrites.

P.S. Do remember to Google Manjunath.

 

[Galaxy]

They can start from suspected Indian Oil mafia and if they failed to question them then may be they will try to blame it on someone, some gang, some non Hindu entity

Sometime i feel pity on you with such useless crap and troll.

India is not a religious country like Pakistan. That Journalist was helping GoI. He was reporting the Nexus of Mafias for last 20 years in spite many threats. It's about which person of Mafia. Investigation is on. Don't post for the sake of posting specially when you don't even understand the topic.

 

[Wonderer]

relax and wait.

for time being any insight on the incident ?

Gangs of mumbai are suspected as the guy was involved in criminal journalism.

But tell me why dont u relax and wait before u post such BS. it dents any reputation u have and derails the discussions. is it too much to asks.

 

[Spring Onion]

Yeah... too much hype from the media because it's one of their own who has suffered this time.

Lots of people have suffered the same fate without grabbing the same kind of attention.

Hypocrites.

i have NOT seen any hype from Indian media on this. just routine stories just like they do on other such incidents. rather always the space is occupied by less important news about other countries.


khair. how many Journalists so fare have been killed in India for last few years ?

 

[Ammyy]

They can start from suspected Indian Oil mafia and if they failed to question them then may be they will try to blame it on someone, some gang, some non Hindu entity

atleast our forces not killing young innocent boys

 

[Ajaxpaul]

They can start from suspected Indian Oil mafia and if they failed to question them then may be they will try to blame it on someone, some gang, some non Hindu entity

What mafia?? they will not bite the hands that feed them. Ofcourse they will catch some random person without any address as they are plenty in mumbai and frame him. Case closed and no questions asked.

We really need good intelligence and good cops in mumbai.

 

[acetophenol]

rip to the journo.
he was bollwood's favourite too.

looks like its the time for the mumbai police encounter squad to show up again

 

[Mujraparty]

RIP sir...

it time to bring these guys back ...
Pradeep Sharma, 112
Daya Nayak - 86
Sachin Waze - 63
Praful Bhosale - 40
Ravindra Angre - 51

those numbers aren't exactly post counts ...