Lawyer files complaint against arrest of Arnab Goswami with NHRC

Delhi based lawyer Siddharth Nayak has filed a complaint against the arrest of Republic Media Network Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami with the National Human Rights Commission. The full statement issued by the petitioner has been given below: In an important development following the unlawful and politically motivated arrest of Republic Media Network Editor-in-Chief, Arnab Goswami, a public spirited lawyer named Mr. Siddharth Nayak, Managing Partner of New Delhi based legal firm Atharva Legal LLP, filed a complaint today on 04.11.2020 at 05:00 PM with the National Human Rights Commission vide diary number 19337/IN/2020 against Mumbai Police and Raigad Police for unjustly and illegally manhandling, assaulting and arresting Mr. Arnab Goswami from his residence in Mumbai. According to the family members of Arnab Goswami, Mumbai Police Officer Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Hindurao Vaze, an infamous ‘encounter specialist’ who holds the blighted disrepute of as many as 63 extra-judicial murders in addition to murder charges for the custodial death of Khwaja Yunus in 2003, led the open criminal intimidation and brazen assault on Mr Goswami in shape of the illegal police action while issuing criminal threats saying, “You don’t know what I am capable of.” API Sachin Vaze, suspended since the year 2007, was reinstated recently by a committee led by Mumbai Police Commissioner citing lack of police officers during the COVID19 pandemic. The Mumbai police had arrested Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami today morning from his house in relation to a 2018 abetment to suicide case which was already closed by the police. An Interior Designer named The Mumbai police had arrested Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami today morning from his house in relation to a 2018 abetment to suicide case which was already closed by the police.