Mumbai, June 12(ANI): In the wake of the murder of senior crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey in Mumbai, Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil on Sunday called for stringent security measures to be provided to mediapersons.
Patil said this while interaction with mediapersons outside the residence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan.
He held a meeting with Chavan to enforce laws that provide security to mediapersons.
"We are planning to bring in law for the protection of mediapersons and we will make it soon," Patil said.
Dey, who was shot dead by unknown assailants on Saturday, was cremated at suburban Ghatkopar.
The postmortem report of Dey indicates that he was shot from close range. The report also shows that five bullets hit him, of which, four hit him in the left chest and one was lodged under the right shoulder
He was considered to be arguably India's best-connected writer on the Mumbai underworld. He spent most of his reporting career bringing out accounts of the goings-on in the Mumbai underworld for several newspapers.
He also wrote a book titled 'Zero Dial: The Dangerous World of Informers' and 'Khallas' - considered a dictionary on the Mumbai underworld. (ANI)
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