SC Grants Bail To Arnab Goswami

Editor-in-chief of Republic Media Network, Arnab Goswami, who was arrested by Mumbai police a week earlier, has been granted bail. Arnab is granted bail today by the Supreme Court. The Apex court which heard the interim bail petition of Arnab has granted him the bail. The court ordered for the release of Goswami and other two accused Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda
on interim bail on a bond of Rs 50,000 each in an abutment of suicide of 53-year-old architect-interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother in 2018.

“If a person commits suicide in Maharashtra and blames govt, will CM be arrested?” senior advocate Harish Salve, who represented Arnab Goswami, argued in the court. He stressed that “For abetment, there must be a direct and indirect act of commission of offense.”

The Supreme Court opined that the High Courts were not doing enough in matters where personal liberty is denied. “Don’t watch the channel of you don’t like… Left to myself I will not watch… If state govt’s target individuals in this manner, let’s send out a message that SC is there,” Justice D Y Chandrachud said. “SC is unhappy that HCs, which are constitutional courts, are not doing enough in matters where personal liberty is denied,” Justice DY Chandrachud added.

It can be noted that the Bombay High Court had refused to grant interim bail to Arnab and two others in the case. Arnab has been lodged in Taloja jail since his arrest. Earlier on Nov 4, Arnab was arrested at his home in connection with the 2018 abutment case in which he and two others were alleged to have abetted the suicide of Anvay Naik and his mother over non-payment of dues by companies of Aranb and two others.