Arnab Goswami Files Plea Against Arrest In High Court.

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Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami was arrested by Mumbai police on November 4. The Special Team Of CID is investigating the reopened two-year-old abetment of suicide case of Mr.Anvay Naik.

Arnab Goswami on Wednesday filed a Plea in Bombay High Court challenging his arrest by Mumbai police. The High Court hearing is on Thursday at 3 Pm. The FIR against him is dated 5, May 2018.

The Petition of Goswami Says “was preceded by the Mumbai police encircling his house by vehicles in the early hours of 4 November”. Also, the arrest was against the fundamental right to life, personal liberty, and dignity under Article 21 of the Constitution. 

 

The petitioner and his son were assaulted and dragged into a police vehicle, it said. “It is shocking that a case that was decisively closed has been reopened with the sole purpose of misusing power, concocting facts and forcefully arresting the petitioner in a prima facie act of revenge and vengeance for his news coverage which questioned those in power in the state of Maharashtra,’’ the petition said. 

 

Arnab Goswami was arrested for the two-year-old closed case against him. In which Anvay Naik and his mother Kumud Naik, were found dead at their Alibaug Form house in May 2018.

Post mortem report said Anvay Naik had strangulated his mother first and then committed suicide.

Police had then found a suicide note which Anvay Naik wrote and told that the extreme step taken by him on account of payments due to them not being cleared by the owners of three companies. According to the suicide note, his firm Concorde Designs Pvt Ltd was owned amount by 3 companies.

1. Arnab Goswami of Republic TV - Rs 83 Lakh.

2. Feroz Shaikh of IcastX/ Skimedia - Rs 4 Crore

3. Niteish Sarda of Smartworks - Rs 55 Lakh.

It was found by the police that Anvay was in heavy debt and was struggling to repay money to contractors.

Arnab Goswami denied all the charges and said that he had made the payments. The local Raigad Police that had been investigating the case had closed the case in April 2019 for the lack of evidence.

But in may 2020, Anvay's daughter approached the Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh seeking the case by reopened.