govt of maharashtraWhich police officers are the media approaching? Or are some police officers approaching the media? Is this a publicity stunt?” the bench asked Advocate-General Ravi Kadam after the lawyer for the intervention petitioner, ‘Press Club’ Mumbai, submitted a compilation of newspaper articles about the investigation in the case. Advocate V.P. Patil and journalists Ketan Tirodkar and S. Balakrishnan had filed separate petitions in the High Court seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
(CBI) into the case. Counsel for the Press Club Navroz Seervai raised questions about the impartiality of the Mumbai Police in probing the J Dey murder case. “How will the police investigate impartially if J Dey had written articles about the nexus between the underworld and a section of the Mumbai Police,” he asked. “I have a compilation of articles which are very irresponsible. It is shocking to see that the police are deliberately leaking wrong information to the media. They have been contradicting themselves,” Mr. Seervai told the court. He said the police were leaking information about not just the professional life but also the personal life of J. Dey. “There are only three ladies in the family (J Dey’s family) — an ageing mother, a sister who is not 100 per cent normal and the wife. Such articles disturb them,” he said. There was also a reference to the alleged call of fugitive gangster Chhota Rajan to a TV channel correspondent a few days ago claiming that he ordered the killing. The Advocate-General told the court that the reporter was summoned and his statement was recorded after that. Justice Ranjana Desai said the police had already made eight arrests. “They should be given more time to find who is behind this.
The question is not how much time the Mumbai police will take to crack the case. The question is whether the probe is independent or not. We want to address the qualitative aspect,” she said. Mr. Seervai claimed that the police had not been able to find the real culprits or the masterminds in the case and had only arrested the “small fish.” “If you leave it to them [Mumbai Police], rest assured, you will not get to the bottom of this,” he said.
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