Hours before Arnab Goswami was released from Taloja jail in Mumbai on Wednesday night, Republic TV editor-in-chief and his wife Samyabrata Ray transferred to a Mumbai court to request pre-arrest bond in a second criminal case. registered against him for alleged assault on the Alibag police. officials who came to arrest him on November 4.
Goswami was arrested by Alibaug police on November 4 for allegedly instigating the suicide of 53-year-old interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother Kumud in 2018. At the time of the arrest, Arnab and his wife had been charged with assault. to members of the police. team that went to arrest him.
A female agent, part of the police team, had filed a complaint against Arnab, his wife and son and two unidentified persons, accusing them of assault. The police submitted a first information report under various provisions of the penal code, including assault to dissuade a public servant from performing his duty, intentional insult to cause breach of the peace, criminal intimidation and under the law. Damage to Public Property Law.
Goswami had denied the charges, insisting that they had only protested his illegal arrest. “The basic argument is that there is no case against him, since the arrest itself is illegal. We rely on recorded video to present our arguments, ”said Arnab Goswami’s attorney, Shyam Kalyankar,
The prosecution has also filed a response to the court opposing his request. The prosecution has stated that Goswami was not afraid for the law and that he could influence witnesses in the case if he was granted protection. The court is likely to hear the guilty plea on Thursday.
The request for pre-arrest bail was filed after the Supreme Court granted Arnab Goswami’s request for provisional bail in an order seeking to protect the individuals at large. The court ordered the release of Goswami and two other individuals in an incitement. to the suicide case dating back to May 2018. All three are charged with complicity in a suicide case filed in May 2018 by the wife of architect Anvay Naik, who died by suicide that year and left a suicide note in which he named Goswami, Niteesh Sarda and Farooq Sheikh, whose companies owed him money for services rendered.
The Supreme Court, which heard Arnab Goswami’s appeal against the higher court that rejected his request for bail, stressed that it was about the freedom of a person.
“Across the country, if this court does not interfere today, we are walking a path of destruction of freedom … you may not like a person’s ideology and challenge it, but if this is what our States will do to catch people, we have to convey this message to all higher courts to preserve the freedom of citizens, “said the court.
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