Mumbai: Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, arrested in connection with the alleged suicide of an interior designer, was on Sunday shifted from Alibaug to Taloja jail in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, police said.
Goswami was moved to Taloja jail after allegedly being found using a mobile phone while in judicial custody at a school designated as COVID-19 centre for Alibaug prison, a police official said.
The Raigad crime branch found Goswami was active on social media using somebody’s mobile phone, despite his personal mobile phone having been seized by police when he was taken into custody on November 4, the official said.
While being escorted to Taloja jail, Goswami shouted from the police van, alleging that he was assaulted by Alibaug jailer on Saturday evening, his life was in danger and he was not allowed to speak to his lawyer.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Samyabrata Ray Goswami, a senior executive editor of Republic TV and Arnab Goswamis wife, said he has been framed on fake charges.
#IndiaWithArnab | The campaign of calumny against Arnab Goswami and Republic will eventually burn to ash with the coming of the unstoppable truth, and the prevailing of absolute justice in the days ahead. All those who are trying to stop it, block it and derail it, take note. pic.twitter.com/qsV3rfF3UR
— Republic (@republic) November 8, 2020
“This morning, my husband, who has spent four nights in judicial custody, was being dragged and lugged by the Maharashtra Police in a blacked-out police van to Taloja Jail.
He was repeatedly saying my life is under threat but to no avail.
“He repeatedly said that the jailer assaulted him after he asked for access to his lawyers, which was shockingly denied. He detailed the assault being inflicted on him during this custody and pleaded, hands folded, to the Supreme Court for intervention and bail,” she said in the statement.
“An innocent man and journalist of decades of repute, who is doing his duty for the nation, has been assaulted, harassed and framed on fake charges. He has been thrown into jail with no reprieve, she said.
Former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya said he met Taloja prison jailer, who assured him that Goswami will not be harassed and also be provided required medical treatment.
Goswami and two others – Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda – were arrested by Alibaug police 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 Lower Parel residence in Mumbai, Goswami was taken to Alibaug, where the Chief Judicial Magistrate remanded him and the two others in judicial custody till November 18.
Goswami was then kept at a local school which has been designated as a COVID-19 centre for the Alibaug prison.
The Bombay High Court will on Monday pronounce its order on the interim bail application filed by Goswami and the two others in connection with the abetment of suicide case.
A notice issued late Saturday night on the high court’s website said the bench would assemble at 3 pm on November 9 for pronouncement of the order.
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Arnab shouted all his way to jail. Spread lies, lies and misinformation about Sushant Singh and Rhea Chavroverty. Every decent Indian was sick and tired of this wild canine. They are feeling relieved now, let’s cleansed our 4th pillar of democracy by sweeping such dirt to dust bins.
Shekhar Gupta and your team was watching Arnab using social media.He has guts,cowards like you can pen all the nonsense stuff.
Arnab is a voice of common man.Whole nation and all the NRIs are supporting him.
Better have some shame and raise your standards of writing.
NRIs = only foreign Hindus. like you.
Whole nation – the majority does not have jobs and money, and does not give a damn.
A good number of people also wish Arnob hell.
Shekhar Gupta and your team was watching Arnab using social media.He has guts,cowards like you can pen all the nonsense stuff.
Arnab is a voice of common man.Whole nation and all the NRIs are supporting him.
Better have some shame and raise your standards of writing.
Arnab messed with the wrong people this time.
These people are powerful than the Indian nation.
CP of Mumbai is the most powerful IPS India has seen.
The highest courts who would open at 4 am to hear a mercy petition of a terrorist responsible for killing hundreds of Indians in Mumbai does not have time to hear Arnab’s bail beyond 6 pm. On top of it the order is reserved which means no further action can be taken by anyone else except the presiding judge. Reminds me of chidambaram judge who reserved his order till last day of retirement.
Mumbai police has shown alacrity to put Arnab in jail where underworld has the last say.
This of course won’t be possible without the people who helped underworld fled, the mastermind of Mumbai blasts, and then used state machinery to create Hindu terror narrative.
Sorry Arnab, you punched well above your weight and got entangled with forces much stronger and ferocious than Indian nation.
RIP in Arnab.
The filthy division of the media houses has come to the fore with this case of Republic TV wherein all the other media houses are hiding to please their political masters or to bring down a fellow worthy channel. History would repeat itself for them or some of them for sure. Let them have a good sleep for the time being