Arnab moves Bombay HC to challenge arrest by Mumbai Police

Republic TV chief Arnab Goswami withdrew his bail plea earlier than an Alibag courtroom on Thursday, moved the Bombay High Court difficult his arrest by the Mumbai Police, and sought the quashing of the FIR towards him within the 2018 abetment of suicide case.

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A Division Bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and M.S. Karnik was listening to a petition filed by Mr. Goswami, presently in judicial custody, whether or not a habeas corpus ought to be issued directing authorities to produce him as he has been wrongfully detained and sought quashing of the FIR towards him beneath Section 306 (abetment of suicide) and 34 (acts carried out by a number of individuals in furtherance of widespread intention) of the Indian Penal Code.

Senior advocate Aabad Ponda, representing Mr. Goswami, argued that the police have ignored the closure report, and with none judicial interference re-opened the case by itself. He stated it was a “dead case and the arrest is illegal”, subsequently Mr. Goswami ought to be granted interim bail as “every second is important”.

The courtroom stored interrupting Mr. Ponda and saying that the matter couldn’t be heard until the complainant was heard. The petition by the unique complainant was listed for Thursday. “That also needs to be heard,” the courtroom stated. The Bench additionally advised Mr. Ponda to challenge the order of the Alibag courtroom.

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Mr. Ponda then stated, “The informant never went to a court of law seeking reinvestigation after the closure. It is the police who suo moto revived the case.” After senior advocate Harish Salve agreed to amend his petition to implead the complainant within the case, the Bench directed the identical to be carried out and adjourned the matter to be heard on November 6 at 3 p.m.

The petition talked about, “It is shocking that a case that was decisively closed has been reopened with the sole purpose of misusing power, concocting facts and forcefully arresting the Petitioner in a prima facie act of revenge and vengeance for his news coverage which questioned those in power in the State of Maharashtra.”

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Mr. Goswami was arrested on November 4 from his residence in Mumbai for allegedly abeting the suicide of inside designer Anvay Naik and his mom Kumud Naik, administrators of Concorde Designs Private Limited, for not paying ₹83 lakh for the “Bombay Dyeing studio project”.