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The Bombay High Court refused his interim bail plea on Monday after reserving its judgment on Saturday. The high court bench had been hearing Goswami’s plea for four days, including Monday, after he filed an interim bail plea on Saturday, calling his November 4 arrest “illegal”.
Goswami, along with two other accused in the case - Firoz Shaikh and Neetish Sarda - was, on the day of his arrest, sent to 14-day judicial custody by the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Alibaug, rejecting Maharashtra Police’s plea for police custody.
Arnab Goswami was arrested in alleged abetment of suicide case on November 4. On Sunday, Goswami was transferred from a makeshift quarantine centre in Alibaug, where he had been kept, to Taloja Central Jail in Navi Mumbai after he was allegedly found using a cellphone. In a video, Goswami has alleged that he was assaulted at the quarantine centre, and claimed there was a threat to his life.
Meanwhile Republic TV's distribution head Ghanshyam Singh was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the alleged TRP (Television Rating Point) rigging scam, as per news agency PTI report.
The known TV anchor has been arrested in a case that pertains to the death by alleged suicide of interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother Kumud in May 2018, nearly a year after Republic TV was launched. In a suicide note which went viral on social media, Naik had accused Goswami, Shaikh, and Sarda of non-payment of dues amounting to Rs 5.4 crore, because of which, Naik wrote, he was being forced to take such a step.
The case was earlier closed by the Raigad Police but Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh ordered a reinvestigation in it earlier this year.