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Using violence to silence the press. Your say!

June 11, 2011 20:02 IST
Jyotirmoy Dey, a senior journalist with the Mumbai daily Mid-day, was shot dead in broad daylight by unidentified assailants on Saturday afternoon.

Dey, who had covered underworld and crime for over two decades, had been reporting extensively on the oil mafia.

Targeting media personnel to silence their voices and is an act of cowardice that needs to be condemned.

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