Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami has moved the Supreme Court challenging Bombay High Court's order that refused to grant him interim bail in the 2018 abetment to suicide of interior designer Anvay Naik. 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.
Goswami has filed the application through Advocate-on-Record Nirnimesh Dube. He has approached the apex court after the Bombay High Court had noted that Goswami has the remedy under law to approach the sessions court concerned and seek regular bail. A division bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and M.S. Karnik, while rejecting the interim bail pleas of Goswami and the two other accused Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda said "no case has been made out for us (court) to exercise our extraordinary jurisdiction".
The HC said the accused had the remedy to approach a lower court in Raigad district, where the case has been filed, for regular bail.
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.
He and the two others were arrested in connection with the suicide of architect-interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother, residents of Alibaug, over alleged non-payment of dues by companies of the accused.
The HC, in its order on Monday, said, "The petitioners have an alternate and efficacious remedy of seeking bail before the sessions court concerned (in Alibaug). We have already noted earlier that if such a bail plea is filed, then the sessions court shall decide the same in four days."
The bench noted that refusal of the interim bail applications shall not affect the remedy available to the petitioners to seek regular bail. It said the sessions court shall hear and decide the bail pleas on merits.
