The Bombay High Court on Monday would not concede interim bail to Republic TV’s managing director and editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, who was captured on November 4 regarding the abetment of suicide of Anvay Naik on May 5, 2018. The High Court requested that Goswami approach a lower court to seek bail.
In the wake of denying interim relief to Goswami, the high court seat expressed that it had clarified that the substitute remedy is accessible to the candidates. The bench added that it had also made clear that the case will not bar the alternate remedies of the petitioner.
Meanwhile, the Alibaug Sessions Court has chosen to hear Arnab Goswami’s bail application later today.
The sessions court is as of now additionally hearing a revision application recorded by the Alibaug police testing a November 4 request for the judges court denying them the authority of Goswami and two others blamed for the situation and remanding the three in legal custody.
The Republic TV editor was captured by Maharashtra Police from his Lower Parel home in Mumbai and taken to Alibaug and produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate Sunaina Pingle. The adjudicator sent Goswami to legal custody till November 18.
The Bombay HC directed a day-long hearing on November 7 and reserved its request. The division seat of Justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik will get together today at 3 pm and pronounce the request.
Following Goswami’s arrest, many union ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, and a few others pummeled the Uddhav Thackeray-drove Maharashtra government, saying that the capture helps them to remember the “Emergency days”.
The Supreme Court on November 6 conceded Arnab Goswami protection from capture in Maharashtra Assembly breach of privilege case. The Maharashtra Assembly secretary had given a privilege notice against Goswami for censuring Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik had moved the break of advantage movement against the Republic TV editor-in-chief on September 16 for purportedly utilizing derogatory language against Thackeray.