'If We Don't Finish Arguments Today, We Will Post Case After Vacations' : Bombay HC During Arnab Goswami Case Hearing; Arguments In Progress

The hearing of the Republic TV Chief Arnab Goswami's habeas petition against his arrest and remand in the 2018 abetment to suicide case is progressing in the Bombay High Court in a special sitting on Saturday. "We are not going to sit on Sunday for further hearing.If we don't finish the arguments today, we will post the case on November 23 after vacations", Justice Shinde said during the course of the hearing. He had moved the High Court stating that police do not have the power to suo moto re-open the case without getting a judicial order, after the Magistrate passed a closure order in the case in 2019 based on the report submitted by police then. "Magistrate even has the power to take cognizance on a closure report differing from police," he said while relying on the Madras High Court's verdict in Namasivayam v. State, 1982 CriLJ 707. Notice issued to Maharashtra Govt in Naik's plea seeking inquiry against officers who filed Closure Report in 2019 The Bench has issued notice to the Maharashtra Government in a petition filed by the Complainant Adnya Anvay Naik, seeking inquiry against those police officers who "miserably failed" to investigate the case and filed closure report earlier.