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Bombay HC denies Arnab Goswami's bail

Goswami was shifted to a jail from a prison quarantine centre on Sunday after allegedly being found using a mobile phone.

Bombay HC denies Arnab Goswami's bail
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The Bombay High Court on Monday afternoon rejected the bail plea moved by Editor-in-Chief of Republic TV Arnab Goswami, who is in judicial custody in relation to a case concerning the suicide of interior designer Anvay Naik in 2018. The Bench of Justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik pronounced the order.

The Court gave Goswami liberty to approach the Sessions Court for regular bail, noting that the application for the same would have to be decided within four days.

Goswami has already moved the Sessions Court at Alibaug for regular bail.

On Monday morning, Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Monday spoke to state home minister Anil Deshmukh and conveyed to him his concern over the security and health of Arnab Goswami. He also asked the home minister to allow Goswami’s family to meet him.

This came after Arnab Goswami, who was arrested by Maharashtra Police on November 4 in connection with a 2018 abetment to suicide case, said he was being tortured and was not allowed to talk to his lawyers. He was speaking to Republic TV reporters from a van that shifted him from a prison quarantine centre to Navi Mumbai’s Taloja jail on Sunday.

 “I had requested them please let me talk to my lawyers. But they denied. I am telling everyone my life is at stake, they have threatened me. My police custody was rejected. They tried to shift me at night only. Today morning they have dragged me. Everybody is seeing what is happening to me. They want to delay the process and keep me in jail. Please give me bail, I am appealing to the Supreme Court,” Arnab Goswami was seen saying with folded hands in the video.

 

The editor-in-chief of the Republic had shouted to the media from the police van, alleging that he was assaulted by Alibaug jailer on Saturday evening, that his life was in danger and that he was not allowed to speak to his lawyer.

Goswami was shifted to jail from a prison quarantine centre on Sunday after allegedly being found using a mobile phone. He was accused of using a mobile phone to post on social media though his phone was seized when he was arrested last week.

Several Union Ministers came out in the TV anchor's support, likening his arrest to the days of the Emergency and accusing Maharashtra's Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government of attacking freedom of the press.

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