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What an irony? Senior crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey, who spent most of his reporting career revealing the goings on in the Mumbai underworld, was shot at by four assailants, reportedly from the underworld, near his home in Powai today. He was immediately rushed to the Hiranandani Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.
Dey was working as Editor, Investigations, for the Mid-Day newspaper.
Talking about Dey’s death, Mid-Day executive editor Sachin Kalbag said, “All of us here are in a state of shock. His loss is tremendous not only to Mid-Day, but also to the science and art of crime reporting."
Dey has written about Dawood Ibrahim, Chotta Rajan and others and it is reported that he was currently working on a series of Dawood. He has written extensively on the underworld. Due to his insightful stories, Dey had been regularly getting death threats.
Dey has written two books - ‘Zero Dial: The Dangerous World of Informers’ and ‘Khallas’ which is considered to be a dictionary on Mumbai’s underworld.

Talking about Dey’s writing, Kalbag said that in the past there have been stories from his pen that were trashed by him out of fear for the writer’s life. Talking high about Dey being a hardworking journalist, Kalbag went on to say that his biggest contribution was that he had trained a large number of crime reporters in Mumbai.
Dey had recently written an article in Mid-Day pointing to Chhota Rajan as the possible hand behind the shooting attempt on Iqbal Kaskar, Dawood's brother, in Mumbai.
It is being said that Dey was currently working on a story on the oil mafia engaged in the adulteration of petroleum products.He had recently exposed a huge scam involving the oil mafia in the state.
Dey earlier worked with The Indian Express and the Hindustan Times.