From exposing a chief minister’s exam scam to cracking the kidney racket, Abhay Mokashi spent decades holding the powerful to account; he dies at 69, leaving behind a newsroom standard built on rigour, not rhetoric Senior investigative and political journalist Abhay Mokashi. Pic/By Special Arrangement Senior investigative and political journalist Abhay Mokashi passed away in Mumbai on May 2 after a months-long battle with terminal-stage stomach cancer and non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.