Bombay High Court denies interim bail to Republic TV owner Arnab Goswami in abetment to suicide case
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to grant interim reduction to Arnab Goswami, the Editor-in-Chief and proprietor of Republic TV, who has been remanded to 14-day judicial custody until November 18 in a 2018 abetment to suicide case.
“Can’t pass interim order without hearing the complainant and State,” a bench comprising Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik mentioned whereas posting the habeas petition filed by Goswami difficult his arrest for listening to at three PM on Friday.
The bench additionally directed Goswami to make the complainant within the case, Akshata Naik, Anvay’s spouse, a respondent to his plea. “We have to hear all the parties concerned before considering the interim relief sought. We have to also hear the complainant as the family of the deceased has filed a petition here seeking transfer of the probe,” the bench mentioned.
“The respondents (the Maharashtra government and the complainant) are entitled to respond….We will consider the interim relief sought tomorrow,” the courtroom mentioned.
Senior counsel Aabad Ponda, showing for Goswami, mentioned a bail plea filed earlier than the Alibaug Justice of the Peace’s courtroom has been withdrawn. “The magistrate had not given clarity on when the bail plea would be heard and had also expressed difficultly in hearing the same as the case lies in the jurisdiction of the sessions court. Hence, we are seeking interim bail here in the high court,” Ponda mentioned.
A courtroom at Alibaug in Maharashtra’s Raigad district had on Wednesday remanded Goswami and two different accused in judicial custody until November 18 within the 2018 abetment to suicide case.
Police had sought Goswami’s custody for 14 days, however the courtroom held that custodial interrogation was not required.
On Wednesday evening, Goswami was taken for medical examination at a state-run hospital within the coastal city, information company PTI mentioned. Goswami spent the evening at an area college which has been designated as a COVID-19 centre for the Alibaug jail.
Goswami and the 2 others have been booked below part 306 (abetment of suicide) and 34 (widespread intention) of the IPC in reference to the suicide of architect-interior designer Anvay Naik and Naik’s mom over alleged non-payment of dues by Republic TV.
The different two arrested accused within the case, Feroze Mohammed Shaikh and Nitesh Sarda, had been additionally produced within the Alibaug courtroom on Wednesday and remanded to judicial custody until November 18.
Naik, in his purported suicide observe, had talked about the names of Goswami, Shaikh and Sarda, police mentioned, including the observe was despatched to handwriting consultants in Pune and a report is awaited.
Goswami had on November 2 filed a petition within the Bombay High Court searching for to quash the FIR within the case. It shall be heard by a division bench of Justices SS Shinde and M S Karnik on Thursday.
A staff of Raigad police picked up Goswami (47) from his Lower Parel home in Mumbai on Wednesday morning. He alleged that he was pushed into the police van and assaulted by police earlier than being taken away. Goswami was produced in a courtroom in Alibaug, round 90 km from Mumbai, and was remanded to judicial custody until November 18. The courtroom ruling got here shortly after 11 pm.
Maharashtra Police had registered an FIR towards Goswami, his spouse, son and two others for “obstructing, assaulting, verbally abusing and intimidating” a police officer on obligation and for tearing up “government papers” (arrest intimation) at his home, the official mentioned.
The FIR was registered on the N M Joshi Marg police station on Wednesday below sections 353, 504, 506 of IPC and part three of the Damage of Public Property Act, the official mentioned.
Several main media homes and high political leaders had condemned the Maharashtra Police motion towards Goswami and termed it as “suppression of freedom of expression’’.
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