Mumbai: Nearly seven years after senior journalist J Dey was shot dead here, a special court Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to all the nine convicted, including gangster Chhota Rajan.
MCOCA court judge Sameer Adkar, however, acquitted former journalist Jigna Vora, who was charged with instigating Rajan to carry out the killing in 2011. The judge also acquitted Paulson Joseph, who was accused of handling the financial operations concerned with the conspiracy.
The court imposed a fine of Rs 26 lakh on each of the convicts.
This is the first major conviction for Rajan since he was deported to India following his arrest at Bali airport in Indonesia in 2015.
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