The Mumbai police have summoned Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami again on Wednesday for questioning but this time over an FIR filed against him by Pydhonie police. Goswami has been called for interrogation at 11:00 AM to the Pydhonie police station for allegedly hurting religious sentiments.
The FIR was filed on the complaint of Irfan Abubakar Sheikh who accused both Republic TV channel and Goswami of making derogatory remarks regarding a mosque located in suburban Bandra and for allegedly creating communal hatred in connection with the crowd gathering outside Bandra (W) railway station.
The migrant workers had gathered outside Bandra Railway station near the mosque on April 14 demanding to go home. The case was filed on the charge of hurting religious sentiments and the FIR states that Goswami displayed a picture of the mosque and questioned the gathering of people outside it during his show on April 29.
The second phase of nationwide lockdown began on April 14 and hours after Narendra Modi’s announcement regarding the same, the stranded migrants in Mumbai gathered outside Bandra West railway station as they expected Indian Railways to start train service for them to go home.
The FIR was lodged in Pydhonie police station in south Mumbai on May 2 by Irfan Abubakar Sheikh who is the secretary of Raza Education Society. Sheikh claimed that Arnab Goswami targeted the mosque which had no connection to the gathering on April 14.
The Republic TV Editor-in-Chief has been booked under sections 153, 153-A, 295-A, 500, 511, 120-b and other sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Mumbai police official informed.
This comes after Goswami was grilled for 12 long hours by Mumbai Police in connection with his alleged diminishing remarks against Congress President Sonia Gandhi and for inciting communal hatred over the Palghar incident where two sadhus and their drivers were killed by an angry mob.
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