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Jigna Vora (born 1974) is a former Indian journalist. She was falsely accused of having a connection in the murder of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey and was booked under MCOCA. Her biographical memoir Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison inspired the 2023 Netflix series Scoop.
Jun 8, 2023 · More than five months after the killing, police had arrested Jigna Vora, the deputy bureau chief of the English daily Asian Age, in connection with Dey’s killing. Police had accused her of “conspiracy to murder” and cited professional rivalry as the motive.
May 2, 2018 · Jigna Vora, 44, broke down in the court when special MCOCA judge Sameer Adkar announced her acquittal. The court sentenced Chhota Rajan and eight others to life imprisonment for the murder by...
May 2, 2018 · J Dey murder case: A special MCOCA court on Wednesday acquitted accused woman journalist Jigna Vora. The court has convicted underworld gangster Chhota Rajan for the murder of Mid-Day crime ...
Dec 4, 2011 · The Mumbai Police say Vora, who has been booked on charges of murder and conspiracy under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (NCOCA) after her arrest from her parental home in the city's Ghatkopar suburb on November 25, acted as an agent provocateur in the murder.
Sep 17, 2019 · Arrested, acquitted: Jigna Vora recounts her trauma after being accused in journalist J Dey’s murder After seven years, Vora, a journalist on the crime beat, was acquitted of all charges.
Mumbai: Six years after being acquitted of the charges of having conspired with gangster Chhota Rajan to murder journalist J Dey, former journalist Jigna Vora on Thursday approached the...
May 3, 2018 · Former journalist Jigna Vora (42) broke down inside the courtroom on Wednesday as the special CBI court pronounced the judgment of her acquittal in the case of murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey in 2011.
Aug 27, 2019 · The Bombay High Court on Tuesday upheld the 2018 verdict of the special CBI court in Mumbai acquitting former scribe Jigna Vora in the journalist J Dey murder case.
May 2, 2018 · Earlier the court acquitted journalist Jigna Vora, who had been accused of instigating the murder, and Paulson Joseph. J Dey was shot dead in Powai on June 11, 2011, allegedly at the behest of...
