Republic TV Chief Arnab Goswami Reached Supreme Court

Republic TV Chief Arnab Goswami reached Supreme Court, challenged the order of not getting interim bail from Bombay High Court.

Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami on Tuesday challenged the Bombay High Court’s order in the Supreme Court in which the court refused to grant interim bail to Goswami in a suicide case in 2018.

On Monday, the Bombay High Court refused to grant interim bail to Arnab Goswami of Republic TV.

A division bench of Justices SK Shinde and MS Karnik said that there are other options for the use of extraordinary powers on the High Court.

The bench once again reiterated that the petitioners can file their petition in the sessions court (lower court), where the application can be decided in four days.

Goswami and two others are accused of abetting an interior designer and his mother to suicide in 2018.

Goswami and two other accused appealed to the court to be released on their interim bail. During the hearing during this period, the court said that the matter is pending.

There is no restriction on the petitioners to go to the concerned lower court for regular bail, where they will get bail in a few days.

Apart from Goswami, other accused Feroz Sheikh and Nitish Sarda had sought interim bail challenging the illegal arrest. On November 4, Arnab Goswami and two others were arrested from Alibaug in a suicide case.

Goswami was shifted to Taloja jail

Goswami was shifted to Taloja Jail in Raigad, Maharashtra on Sunday. He was earlier housed in a corona center built in a school for the Alibaug prison.

At the same time, a police officer said that Arnab Goswami was using a mobile phone during judicial custody. After this, he was sent to Taloja Jail.

Court also disagrees with the arrest

Significantly, the standards set by the police and prosecution for successfully convicting a person for the abetment of suicide are very strict.

The Court has also said in various judgments from time to time that the accused should have the intention and involvement to assist or incite a suicide trial. A person’s suicide note may not be enough to convict a person in itself.

In the year 2018, the Punjab and Haryana High Court confirmed this in a case of KR Madhav Rao vs Government of Haryana where the court said that just because a person’s name has been taken in a suicide note, one cannot reach the conclusion that he is guilty.

The Court was of the view that the suicide note should be analyzed and examined to ascertain the information implicating the victim to induce, provoke, force suicide.

This is the reason why Alibag’s court in the Anvay Naik Suicide Case said after his arrest last day that at first sight Arnab Goswami’s arrest seems to be illegal.