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Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of an inside designer, spent the night at a neighborhood school which has been designated as a COVID-19 centre for the Alibaug jail, an official stated on Thursday.
A court docket at Alibaug in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on Wednesday remanded Goswami and two different accused in judicial custody until November 18 in a 2018 abetment to suicide case.
Police had sought Goswami’s custody for 14 days, however the court docket held that custodial interrogation was not required.
On Wednesday night, Goswami was taken for medical examination at a state-run hospital within the coastal city, the official stated.
After the medical examination, he was taken to Alibaug Nagar Parishad School, which is designated as a COVID-19 centre of the Alibaug jail, and he spent the night there, the official stated.
Goswami and the 2 others had been booked beneath part 306 (abetment of suicide) and 34 (frequent intention) of the IPC in reference to the suicide of architect-interior designer Anvay Naik and Naik’s mom over alleged non-payment of dues by Republic TV.
The different two arrested accused within the case, Feroze Mohammed Shaikh and Nitesh Sarda, had been additionally produced within the Alibaug court docket on Wednesday and remanded to judicial custody until November 18.
Naik, in his purported suicide observe, had talked about the names of Goswami, Shaikh and Sarda, police stated, including the observe was despatched to handwriting consultants in Pune and a report is awaited.
Hearing on Goswami’s bail utility can be on Thursday at Alibaug court docket, an official stated.
Goswami had on November 2 filed a petition within the Bombay High Court searching for to quash the FIR within the case. It can be heard by a division bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik on Thursday.
A staff of Raigad police picked up Goswami (47) from his Lower Parel home in Mumbai on Wednesday morning. He was seen being pushed into the police van, and claimed that he was assaulted by police earlier than being taken away.
Goswami was produced in a court docket in Alibaug, round 90 km from Mumbai, and was remanded to judicial custody until November 18. The court docket ruling got here shortly after 11 pm.
Mumbai police have registered an FIR in opposition to Goswami, his spouse, son and two others for “obstructing, assaulting, verbally abusing and intimidating” a police officer on obligation and for tearing up “government papers” (arrest intimation) at his home, the official stated.
The FIR was registered at the N M Joshi Marg police station on Wednesday beneath sections 353, 504, 506 of IPC and part three of the Damage of Public Property Act, the official stated.
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