"Will Not Flee Away From The Course Of Justice": Arnab Goswami Tells Alibaug Sessions Court In His Bail Plea
Live LawRepublic TV Chief Arnab Goswami has filed an application before the Sessions Court in Raigad, seeking regular bail in connection to his arrest and remand in the 2018 abetment to suicide case. "On 4 November 2020, at the relevant time, it is an indisputable matter of record that more than 20 uniformed police officers led by Mr Sachin Vaze, an encounter specialist and armed with assault weapons barged into the house of the Applicant in the early morning hours and forcefully dragged Applicant out of the house. He submitted, "As it often happens in commercial contracts such as the one between ARG and Concorde, several issues arose during the execution of the works under the Work Orders. The case against Goswami has been lodged on the basis of a suicide note left by the victim, Anvay Naik, which stated that he and his mother decided to take the extreme step on account of payments due to them not being cleared by the owners of three companies – television journalist Arnab Goswami of Republic TV, Feroz Shaikh of IcastX/Skimedia and Niteish Sarda of Smartworks.