Arnab Goswami moves SC challenging Bombay HC order declining him interim bail in Anvay Naik suicide case

The application comes on the day when Alibaug Sessions Court is hearing the revision application filed by Raigad Police seeking police custody of Goswami who is currently lodged in Taloja jail

Arnab Goswami moves SC challenging Bombay HC order declining him interim bail in Anvay Naik suicide case
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Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court order declining him interim bail in the case of abetment to suicide of interior designer, Anvay Naik, legal news website BarandBench.com has reported.

The application comes on the day when Alibaug Sessions Court is hearing the revision application filed by Raigad Police seeking police custody of Goswami who is currently lodged in Taloja jail.

The High Court had noted that the petitioner (Goswami) has the remedy under law to approach the sessions court concerned and seek regular bail.

The High Court was hearing petitions filed by Goswami and two other accused Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda challenging their "illegal arrest" in the case and seeking interim bail.

A relative of Feroze Shaikh, Parveen Shaikh has also moved the Supreme Court seeking bail for the accused.

Bombay High Court held that no case is made out for Arnab Goswami's release under its extraordinary writ jurisdiction, thereby rejecting the

interim application moved by the Republic TV Editor-in-Chief before it in the Anvay Naik suicide case.

Goswami has been in judicial custody since November 4 following his arrest in relation to a case concerning the suicide of interior designer Anvay Naik in 2018.

The Bench of Justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik also clarified that the remedy to apply for regular bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal procedure shall remain unaffected.

"Petitioner has an alternate and efficacious remedy under section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to apply for regular bail. At the time of concluding the hearing of Applications, we had made it clear that if the petitioner, if so advised, to apply for regular bail under section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure before the concerned Court, then, in that case, we have directed the concerned Court to decide the said application within four days from filing of the same," it said.


Goswami had sought for interim bail on the ground that his detention was illegal. He had also challenged his November 4 arrest in the 2018 case, which had been closed earlier in 2019.

The Court refused to express their opinions on the merits of the case and the alleged illegal arrest as the prayers pertaining to these aspects will be considered when the main plea to quash the FIR will be considered in December.

The Court clarified that the observations they had made in the order are prima facie in nature and confined to the adjudication of the interim application for bail.

Goswami and the two others were arrested by Alibaug police in Maharashtra's Raigad district on November 4 in connection with the suicide of architect-interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother in 2018 over alleged non-payment of dues by companies of the accused.

After his arrest from his residence in Mumbai, Goswami was taken to Alibaug, where the Chief Judicial Magistrate refused to remand him in police custody.

The magistrate's court remanded Goswami and the two others in judicial custody till November 18.

Goswami was initially kept at a local school which has been designated as a COVID-19 centre for the Alibaug prison.

On Sunday, he was shifted to the Taloja jail in Raigad district after allegedly being found using a mobile phone while in judicial custody.

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