Mid Day Journalist

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  Journalist Who Exposed Roti-Salt Meal In UP School Dies Of Cancer

  The video Mr Jaiswal shot, was from the Siur primary school in Jamalpur block of Mirzapur and showed young children sitting on the floor of the school corridor, eating rotis with salt under a flagship scheme of the central government.

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  For Images Of Roti With Salt Served At UP School, Case Against Journalist

  Days after studentsat a government school in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district were filmed eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal under a flagship scheme of the central government, a case has been filed by the state government against the journalist who shot the video.

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  With a young Sachin Tendulkar at an Irani restaurant

  The first ever article on Sachin was published in MiD DAY: After interviewing him for the first time in 1986, then MiD DAY journalist Sunil Warrier thought Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar would emulate the dashing Sandeep Patil.

• How Arabs buy 'wives' and dump them in a few weeks

  A month-long investigation by MiD DAY journalists has revealed a twisted form of human trafficking that involves rich Arabs, greedy Qazis, sham marriages, agents and girls lured into the flesh trade or those looking for a quick buck.

• Chembur no longer haven for bookies

  Just a month after Vinod Asrani alias Vinod Chembur was arrested in connection with MiD DAY journalist J Dey's murder, cops have launched a drive to nab bookies in the area.

• J Dey murder: Police arrest another suspect

  The Mumbai Crime Branch today arrested Vinod Chembur in connection with the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. The police suspect Vinod Chembur was the person who identified J Dey to the shooters.Vinod Chembur, who is apparently also a bookie, has been remanded to police custody till 7th July. The Mumbai Crime Branch claims Vinod Chembur is...

• Blood money for J Dey's murder paid in Chandni Chowk

  The ongoing police investigation into the murder case of journalist J Dey on Wednesday revealed that part of the plot to kill him might have been hatched in the Capital.A source said the money paid to shooter Satish Kalia and his men to kill Dey was handed over in Delhi's Chandni Chowk area. Also, the fire arms used to shoot Dey was procured in Hal...

• J Dey murder: Cops chase Rajan aides for clues

  Following the revelation that it was Chhota Rajan behind MiD DAY journalist J Dey's killing, the Mumbai police are on the lookout for every man thought to be a Rajan aide so they may question them about the underworld don's motive.The manhunt comes as cops aim to extract every minute detail about Rajan from every source, in the hope that they may b...

• Cops question another suspect in J Dey case

  Investigating the J Dey murder case, the Mumbai police on Wednesday questioned a man called Nihal Tanna who had reportedly met the crime journalists a few days before the murder. Tanna was arrested 3 days ago in connection with an unrelated cheating and forgery case.The police are not regarding this as a breakthrough but have termed it a crucial le...

• RR Patil's remark on Dey murder causes discomfort

  A week after the killing of journalist J Dey, Maharashtra home minister R R Patil today admitted that the police was still clueless about the perpetrators.Mr Patil said that the attackers smart enough not to have left any clue for the police to track them down. "There are some criminals who are very smart. They are not leaving any clues. That is wh...

• Dey murder: Three bullets 'lost' from crime scene

  Investigations over J Dey's murder received another heavy blow yesterday, when scientists from the state Forensic Science Lab (FSL) at Kalina admitted that three of the bullets fired at Dey were never recovered from the scene of crime. This 'loss' may have huge repercussions on the investigation and court proceedings of the case. If retrieved on ti...

• Mumbai's khaki-underworld nexus

  Mumbai Police, considered one of the best crime-fighting forces in the world, has had one allegation come up against it every once in a while-- that of a nexus with the underworld. The latest man in khaki to come under the scanner is Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Anil Mahabole, who will be questioned in the murder of senior Mid Day journal...

• Transferred cop Mahabole on J Dey's murder

  Assistant Commissioner of Police Anil Mahabole has said that he is no way connected to the murder  of investigative reporter J Dey. The journalist was shot on Saturday evening while he was riding his two-wheeler down a crowded Mumbai street. The police says that Mr Dey was most likely killed as a result of  "professional enmity." Mr Mahab...

• I couldn't take a good look at J Dey's killers' faces: Eyewitness

  In a development that brings the authenticity of the sketch of J Dey's killer released by the Mumbai Police into question, a copy of the sole eyewitness' statement accessed by MiD DAY clearly states that the shootout was over in a few seconds and he had been unable to see the suspects' faces clearly.'I was in my car and was driving ahead of Dey whe...

• Journalist murder case: Mumbai ACP to be questioned

  An Assistant Commissioner with the Mumbai Police, Anil Mahabole, will be questioned in connection with the killing of senior Mid Day journalist J Dey, sources have told NDTV.  Mr Dey, in his news reports, had alleged that Mr Mahabole had links with the D-Company, the gang operated by Dawood Ibrahim. On Monday, Mr Mahabole was transferred from ...