- On 5 August, the CBI filed its supplementary chargesheet against gangster Chhota Rajan in connection with the murder case of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey at a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
- On 5 July, MCOCA court Judge SS Adkar had directed the probe agency to file the chargesheet latest by 5 August.
- According to CBI, the motive for killing Dey in 2011 was the book that he was writing on the underworld.
- Rajan was arrested at Bali airport in Indonesia on 25 October 2015 and deported to India. He is facing around 70 cases in Maharashtra, which include the J Dey murder case of 2011. The Maharashtra government has handed over all these cases to CBI.
(With inputs from PTI.)
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