The Bombay High Court today rejects provisional bail for journalist Arnab Goswami in a case of suicidal complicity. The Mumbai High Court has ordered Arnab Goswami to go to a lower court to request bail in the suicide case of Anvay Naik.
A bench from the division of judges SS Shinde and MS Karnik said that “no case was brought in the present case for the higher court to exercise extraordinary jurisdiction.”
The HC indicated that the petitioner (Goswami) has the legal recourse to go to the corresponding court of sessions and request a regular bond.
The HC was listening to petitions from Goswami and two other defendants, Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda, who were challenging their “illegal arrest” in the case and seeking provisional bail.
Meanwhile, the editor-in-chief of Republic TV, arrested in connection with the alleged suicide of an interior designer, filed a request for bail with the Alibaug session court in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on Monday.
The session court is also currently hearing a request for review filed by the Alibaug police challenging a November 4 order from the magistrates court denying them custody of Goswami and two other defendants in the case and that all three they are in judicial custody.
Earlier 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.
Goswami and the other defendants, Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda, had contested their “illegal detention” and requested their release on provisional bail.
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.
On Saturday, the court said that the processing of the matter does not prevent petitioners from requesting a regular bond from the corresponding session court.
The court said that if such bail grounds are presented, the session court will hear and decide the same in four days from the presentation of the grounds.
Goswami and the other two were arrested by Alibaug police in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on November 4 in connection with the suicide of architect and interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother in 2018 over alleged non-payment of company fees. of the accused.
After his arrest at his residence in Mumbai, Goswami was taken to Alibaug, where the chief judicial magistrate refused to take him into police custody.
The magistrates court placed Goswami and the other two in judicial custody until 18 November.
Goswami was initially kept at a local school that has been designated as a COVID-19 center for Alibaug Prison.
On Sunday, he was transferred to Taloja jail in Raigad district after he was allegedly found using a mobile phone while in judicial custody.
- With contributions from agencies
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