No relief for Arnab yet, Bombay High Court to hear matter today

The Bombay High Court on Friday kept for further hearing on Saturday a habeas corpus plea by Republic TV
No relief for Arnab yet, Bombay High Court to hear matter today

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Friday kept for further hearing on Saturday a habeas corpus plea by Republic TV Managing Director and Chief Editor ArnabGoswami, challenging his arrest by the Maharashtra Police in an abetment of suicide case and seeking interim bail.

The court will also hear a plea filed by AdnyaNaik, daughter of the architect AnvayNaik, who along with his mother KumudNaik, had committed suicide at their bungalow in Alibaug, Raigad, on May 5, 2018. She has sought a reinvestigation into the case or transferring it to an independent agency.

Since the hearings - in which Goswami's lawyers Harish Salve and Abad Ponda made a strong plea for releasing him on bail - could not be completed, it will continue on Saturday before a division bench of Justice S.S. Shinde and Justice M.S. Karnik.

This will be a rare hearing by the Bombay HC on a weekly holiday as normally courts remain closed during weekends.

During the hearing on Friday, the judges pointed out that the usual practice for seeking bail is to approach the lower courts - either the magistrate court or the sessions court - and approach the high court only if bail is denied there.

Pleading that Goswami's liberty was at stake, Salve said that the Code of Criminal Procedure's Section 439 has given the high court special powers to hear bail pleas.

Goswami was nabbed from his Worli residence in a dramatic operation by the Mumbai Police and Raigad police on November 4 morning and whisked off to Raigad. (IANS)

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