Arnab Goswami’s bail plea rejected by Bombay High Court

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday rejected the interim bail application of Arnab Goswami in an alleged abetment of suicide case.

Rejecting the plea,  Bombay HC informed that Arnab's right to approach Session Court still exists. The high court further said that the session court will decide on the bail of the journalist within a 4-day time limit. The verdict was pronounced at 3 pm today.

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On Sunday, Goswami made some shocking revelations of being assaulted. The journalist informed that his life is being under threat as he was being shifted from the quarantine centre in Alibag to Taloja jail on Sunday after remaining in judicial custody for four days.

While being taken to the jail in a van with black screens on its windows, Goswami claimed that he was being pushed and assaulted.

The Bombay High Court on Saturday reserved its order on an interim bail plea of Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami who was arrested in abetment of suicide case, without giving him any immediate relief.

On Saturday, Alibag sessions court adjourned a hearing on a Raigad police plea to November 9, challenging the magistrate court order refusing to send Journalist Arnab Goswami to police custody.

Architect and interior designer, Anvay Naik and his mother Kumud Naik died by suicide at their farmhouse in Maharashtra’s Alibag on May 5, 2018.

The designer left behind a suicide note where he named three individuals whom he said were responsible for the suicide.

In the note, Naik said that the three individuals in question owed his firm Concorde Designs a total of Rs 5.4 crore which did not allow him to pay his creditors.

The note said that Arnab Goswami owed Naik Rs 83 lakhs, Feroz Shaikh owed the firm Rs 4 crore, and Nitesh Sarda Rs 5 lakh.

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