Police attack case: Hearing on Arnab Goswami's anticipatory bail plea today

Posted on 1st Dec 2020 by rohit kumar

Mumbai's sessions court will hear the anticipatory bail pleas in the case lodged against Arnab Goswami and his wife, editor-in-chief of Republic TV channel, for allegedly assaulting a female officer of the Mumbai police. An FIR was registered against the couple and their son by NM Joshi Marg police in central Mumbai. The FIR has alleged that in a case of alleged abetment to suicide, when police reached Goswami's house on November 4, he allegedly attacked a female officer and discharged her duty to a government employee. Prevented from doing.

 

His lawyer Shyam Kalyankar said he is awaiting a copy of the Supreme Court order granting interim bail to Goswami in the 2018 case for allegedly abetting interior designer Anvay Naik to commit suicide. A 47-year-old TV journalist was arrested for allegedly abetting Naik for suicide. Currently, Goswami and his wife Samyavrat Rai Goswami have also filed anticipatory bail petitions.

 

Sections 353 (obstructing public servant's work), 504 (intentionally insulting someone for breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation/intimidation) and public property against Goswami and his wife. A case has been registered under the law related to causing harm.

 

Meanwhile, the order on the revision petition of Alibag police requesting detention of Goswami and his wife in the alleged abetment of suicide was deferred till December 5, as the judge attached to the Alibaug sessions court heard the petition Could not be available for Monday.

 

Arnab Goswami and other accused were arrested by the Alibag police of Raigad district in Maharashtra on November 4 on charges of abetting interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother to commit suicide in 2018. They are alleged to have not paid their dues. Goswami was arrested from his residence in Mumbai and taken to Alibag in the neighboring Raigad district. Naik was a resident of Alibaug and a case of abetment to suicide was registered here.

 

The TV presenter was produced before a magistrate in Alibaug along with two co-accused who had sent him to jail in judicial custody instead of being sent to police custody. The Alibaug police then filed a revision petition against the magistrate's order before the sessions court, requesting that the accused be sent to police custody. Goswami's bail was accepted by the Supreme Court on November 11, after which he was released from Taloja Jail in the Raigad district.

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