Police shift journalist Arnab Goswami to Navi Mumbai’s Taloja jail

Republic TV editor-in-chief and prime time anchor Arnab Goswami was shifted from Alibag main faculty, which has been transformed right into a makeshift jail facility in Maharashtra’s Raigad district due to the raging coronavirus illness (Covid-19) outbreak, to Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai on Sunday morning.

Kaushtubh Kurlekar, superintendent of police (SP), Taloja jail, stated: “He will be kept for a few days in a quarantine centre inside the prison before he is shifted to the barrack.”

Samyabrata Ray Goswami, senior govt editor of Republic TV and Goswami’s spouse, put out a press release interesting for his “immediate release” and lashing out on the Maharastra authorities for its “human rights abuse and excesses”.

“On Sunday morning, my husband, who has spent four nights in judicial custody (JC), was being dragged and lugged by the Maharashtra Police in a blacked-out police van to Taloja Jail. He was repeatedly saying ‘my life is under threat’ but to no avail. He repeatedly said that the jailer assaulted him after he asked for access to his lawyers, which was shockingly denied. He detailed the assault being inflicted on him during this custody and pleaded, hands folded, to the Supreme Court (SC) for intervention and bail. An innocent man and journalist of decades of repute, who is doing his duty for the nation, has been assaulted, harassed and framed on fake charges. He has been thrown into jail with no reprieve…,” she stated within the assertion.

Goswami was arrested on November four together with two different accused, Feroz Shaikh and Nitesh Sarda, from Mumbai in reference to the 2018 abetment suicide case of architect and inside designer Anvay Naik, and so they have been produced within the Alibag district and session courtroom on the identical day.

Goswami was despatched to a 14-day judicial custody later at evening on that day following a listening to that lasted for six hours. His custody expires on November 18.

The safety on the Alibag makeshift jail facility was strengthened on Sunday morning at round 10 am, because the jail authorities determined to shift Goswami to Taloja jail.

Alibag police have challenged the judicial custody and sought a permission for custodial interrogation of Goswami, Shaikh and Sarada, who’ve been booked for non-payment of late Naik’s dues of over Rs 5 crore.

The Alibag courtroom will hear the plea on Monday (November 9).

Goswami additionally moved the Bombay excessive courtroom (HC) on Saturday, questioning his arrest and sought speedy reduction. His authorized workforce argued that Goswami’s arrest and detention have been unlawful as a result of the case was closed in April 2019 by the then Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led authorities in Maharashtra.The excessive courtroom is predicted to take up his bail utility at 3pm on Monday.

Earlier this 12 months, the case was reopened by the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities, a coalition of the Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress, with out acquiring essential courtroom order, his authorized workforce additional argued.

Shaikh and Sarda moved an analogous plea within the HC, which reserved its order on the interim bail plea of Goswami and the opposite two accused.