The Bombay high court on Wednesday granted bail to Paulson Joseph, an alleged member of the Chhota Rajan gang and accused in the murder of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey.
The jailed gangster had on Thursday moved the court against the web series, saying that the 'use or misuse of the attributes of his personality' without his prior consent amounted to infringement of his 'personality rights' as well as defamation.
A senior police officer said on condition of anonymity that "we are probing the incident from all angles. But our line of investigation is going towards checking the possible involvement of people associated with the oil mafia".
Journalist with Mumbai-based tabloid MiD DAY has been shot at. J Dey, the injured crime reporter is admitted to Mumbai's Hiranandani Hospital.
A week after the murder of the senior crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey, the Mumbai Police control room on Saturday received an anonymous phone call from Yemen with the caller saying Indian Mujahideen was behind the killing.
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Underworld don Chhota Rajan's aide Rohit Thangappan, who was behind bars for the murder of senior scribe Jyotirmoy Dey, was on Wednesday arrested in connection with a firing case involving a hotelier, two days after a local court sought his production, the police said.
A day after mediapersons demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the killing of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey in Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said the Mumbai Police should not be "undermined" and given a fair chance to investigate the brutal murder
Vora and Paulson Joseph were acquitted due to lack of evidence.
Rajan, who is presently lodged at the Tihar jail, sought a stay on the release of the series and an order to take down the trailer.
Additional Chief Secretary K P Bakshi told reporters at a hurriedly-called press conference that all the cases against 55-year old Rajan, who has been deported from Indonesia, are being transferred to CBI because of its expertise in "handling transnational crimes".
'There's this one scene in Gulmohar that belongs to Manojji and everyone was excited for him.' 'The evening before we were to shoot it, everyone, from Sharmilaji to the junior most actor, wished him luck.'
'He was suddenly nervous.'
'The next day, 14 actors, from Sharmilaji and Amol Palekar to Suraj Sharma, all watched him perform.' 'It was like being back in film school.'
Chhota Rajan, one of India's most wanted gangster, has been arrested in the tourist town of Bali, Indonesia on a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol after eluding law enforcement agencies for over two decades.
'Your faith in the system, and in the fact that you are a citizen of this country and have rights, starts eroding.'
>The BJP's star campaigner could not help even half the number of candidates for whom he campaigned in his aggressive 'Didi-o-Didi' style in Bengal
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