Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, arrested Wednesday at his Lower Parel home in connection with a case of incitement to suicide in 2018, spent the night at a local school that has been designated a Covid-19 center for the Alibag prison. an official said Thursday. This was to complete his quarantine period before being sent to the main prison. A court in Alibag, in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, detained Goswami and two other defendants in judicial custody until 18 November in a 2018 suicide incitement case.
This is what happened on Wednesday:
* A Raigad police team picked up the 47-year-old journalist from his Lower Parel home in Mumbai on Wednesday morning. He claimed that he was being attacked by the police.
* He was then taken to Alibag, about 90 km from Mumbai, and presented in court.
* The hearing lasted until late at night on Wednesday. The police had sought custody of Goswami for 14 days, but the court held that a custodial interrogation was not necessary.
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* The other two defendants arrested in the case, Feroze Mohammed Shaikh and Nitesh Sarda, were also presented in Alibaug court on Wednesday and placed in judicial custody until 18 November.
* On Wednesday night, Goswami was brought in for a medical examination at a state hospital in the coastal city.
* After the medical examination, he was transferred to the Alibag Nagar Parishad school, designated as the Covid-19 center of the Alibag prison, and there he spent the night.
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* The court dismissed Goswami’s claim that he was assaulted. Meanwhile, the Mumbai police filed a new FIR against Goswami, his wife, their son and two other individuals for “obstructing, assaulting, verbally abusing and intimidating” a police officer on duty and for tearing “government documents” (intimidation arrest) at his home. . The FIR was registered at the NM Joshi Marg Police Station on Wednesday under sections 353, 504, 506 of the IPC and section 3 of the Damage to Public Property Act.
What’s next for Arnab Goswami?
* Arnab Goswami’s guilty plea will be heard by the Alibag court.
* Goswami had filed on November 2 a petition in Bombay High Court seeking to quash the FIR in the case. It will be heard by a division bench of judges SS Shinde and MS Karnik on Thursday.
(With PTI inputs)
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