Digital Desk, Mumbai. Netflix will stream the scoop from June 2, ahead of the 12th anniversary of the murder of Mumbai crime journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. A series that promises to rekindle memories of their bloody end by the mafia.
Directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta (Shahid and Scam: 1992), Scoop stars Karishma Tanna, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Harman Baweja, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Deven Bhojani in lead roles.
The series is based on the biographical novel Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison, written by former journalist Jigna Vora, one of the prime accused in the Dey murder case. But after seven years of ordeal, he was finally acquitted in 2018 and acquitted by the Bombay High Court in 2019.
Dey, 55, the investigations editor of the multi-city tabloid Mid-Day, was shot dead on 11 June 2011 at around 3 pm. Four sharpshooters came on a motorcycle and disappeared after carrying out the sensational incident.
Dey was returning home in Powai on a motorcycle after meeting his mother in Ghatkopar when a four-member gang attacked him near Hiranandani Garden.
He was taken to a local hospital and then to Hiranandani Hospital, but was declared brought dead.
The Mumbai Police suspected that this was a professionally conducted operation and perhaps related to Dey’s professional work, which later proved to be true. The underworld had conspired to kill.
Under immense pressure, the Crime Branch of Mumbai Police formed several teams and cracked the case in about 16 days and arrested seven accused from different states of the country.
While three were nabbed from Chembur (Mumbai), one from Solapur and two others from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. The mastermind of the incident was dreaded mafia don, Rajendra S. Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan was told. Who controlled the operation from abroad.
Those who were caught and later faced trial include Rohit Thangappan Joseph alias Satish Kalia, Arun J. Deck, Abhijeet K. Shinde; Anil B Waghmode, Nilesh N. Shendge alias Bablu, Sachin S. Gaikwad, Mangesh D. Agwane, Deepak Sisodia; Vora and Joseph Paulson (both released); And Vinod Chembur died during the trial.
The eight accused and Chhota Rajan were sentenced to life imprisonment. While Vora and Paulson were acquitted, thus exposing one of the most heinous crimes against the media at that time.
Incidentally, 64-year-old Chhota Rajan, who had been on the run for almost three decades and survived attacks by Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar’s rival gang, was extradited to India from Bali, Indonesia in November 2015 and then stood trial in the Dey murder case and several other cases. faced.
A former colleague of Day’s remembered him as a diligent professional who did due diligence before filing his investigative stories.
He was a man of few words, always active, rarely smiling or joking, quietly disappearing to meet sources and breaking the news the next day, said the aide, on condition of anonymity. Used to be
In his career spanning 25 years, Dey worked with publications such as The Afternoon Dispatch & Courier, The Hindustan Times, Mid-Day, The Indian Express. He specialized in crime reporting, and wrote two books Zero Dial: The Dangerous World of Informers and Khallas.
(IANS)
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