Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami’s request, challenging the Mumbai high court order that refused to grant him provisional bail in the 2018 suicide incitement case, will be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
A vacation bench of Judges DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee is likely to hear the case at 10:30 am. On Monday, the high court refused to grant Goswami and two other people provisional bail and asked them to move to the local court.
In his argument to the higher court presented through attorney Nirnimesh Dubey, Goswami stated that “the balance of convenience is also in favor of the petitioner and that he would suffer irreparable damages” if the higher court order is not stopped during the processing. of the sentence. present petition, according to the ANI news agency. Goswami, who is currently housed in Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai, called his arrest and detention “illegal” as a violation of his right to life and personal liberty guaranteed by article 21 of the 1950 Indian Constitution. .
Aside from the Maharashtra government, Goswami has made the Center, Alibaug SHO Police Station, Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh and Akshyata Anvay Naik parties to his appeal.
The 47-year-old journalist also filed a bail statement in the session court following the Mumbai high court order.
Shortly after the matter was listed for Wednesday morning, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) objected to the “extraordinary” inclusion of Goswani’s petition and asked the secretary general of the superior court that reveal whether any order or address was issued to list the matter. by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) in this regard.
Goswami, along with two other defendants Feroz Shaikh and Nitesh Sarda, were arrested on November 4 in connection with the 2018 suicide complicity case of designer Anvay Naik and his mother Kumud. The designer, in a suicide note, had alleged non-payment of fees by the defendants’ firms. Subsequently, the three defendants were presented before a magistrate who refused to take them into police custody and placed them in judicial custody until 18 November.
The Republic TV editor was initially kept at a local school designated as a Covid-19 quarantine center for Alibaug Prison. However, on Sunday he was transferred to Taloja jail in Raigad district after he was allegedly found using a mobile phone while in judicial custody.
Pradeep Bhandari, consulting editor of the Republic news channel, wrote to CJI SA Bobde on Sunday urging him to learn of Goswami’s transfer to Taloja jail to allegedly keep him with “hardened” and “underworld” criminals and to provide “some kind of security”. “to him. He said that Goswami has said that” his life is in danger. ”
(With contributions from the agency)
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