Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami said on Sunday that he was subjected to torture and was not allowed to speak to his lawyers. A video posted by Republic Television showed him speaking to the media from the police van that transported him from Alibag Primary School in Rajgad District to Taloja Jail in Navi Mumbai.
“I had asked them to please let me speak (to my lawyers). But they denied it. I tell everyone that my life is at stake. My police custody was denied. They tried to change me only at night. This morning they dragged me away. Everyone is seeing what is happening to me. They want to delay the process and keep me in jail. Please give me the bail, I am appealing to the Supreme Court ”, the 47-year-old journalist could be seen saying in the video with his hands folded.
Goswami was arrested on November 4 at his Lower Parel residence in connection with complicity in the suicide case of interior designer Anvay Naik in 2018, who, in his suicide note, had blamed Goswami and two other people for the suicide of him and his mother. housed in the elementary school that has been converted into a Covid-19 facility. Now, he will be kept for a few days in a quarantine center inside the Taloja prison before being transferred to the barracks, said Kaushtubh Kurlekar, superintendent of police (SP), Taloja prison.
Goswami was supposed to be transferred to Alibag jail after having finished his quarantine period at the Covid-19 facility. But the decision to transfer him to another prison was made after Goswami was allegedly found using someone’s mobile phone at the quarantine center.
Meanwhile, Delhi police detained BJP leaders Kapil Mishra and Tajinder Bagga on Sunday and thwarted their attempt to hold a protest in Rajghat in support of Arnab Goswami.
Two hearings in the suicide complicity case are scheduled for Monday.
The Bombay High Court will issue its order on Goswami’s application for provisional bail. On Saturday, a division bench of judges SS Shinde and MS Karnik after a one-day hearing on pleas reserved their order without granting any immediate relief. A notice issued Saturday night on the superior court’s website said the court would meet at 3 p.m. on Nov. 9 to render the order.
The Alibag session court will also hear a statement from the police challenging a magistrate’s order that denied them custody of Goswami.
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