Arnab Goswami remanded to 14 days judicial custody in suicide abetment case

Nov. 5: Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami was sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a court in Alibaug, Raigad in Maharashtra over an alleged “abetment of suicide” of an interior designer in 2018. Two others, named in the suicide note,  Feroz Shaikh and Nitesh Sarda were also sent for 14 days judicial custody by Alibaug District Magistrate Court in connection with Anvay Naik suicide case. The court gave the ruling late in the night on Wednesday.

Earlier on 4 November, Goswami was arrested in the death case of interior designer Anvay Naik, who allegedly died by suicide in Alibaug in May 2018. A suicide note purportedly written by Naik alleged that Goswami had not paid him his dues. Naik and his mother Kumud Naik died by suicide at their farmhouse in Maharashtra’s Alibaug on 5 May, 2018.

Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has summoned Superintendent of Police Raigad to appear before the panel on Friday by 11 AM. The commission has summoned SP after Advocate Aditya Mishra filed a petition at MHRC and reportedly informed that Goswami was treated inhumanly during the indiscriminate arrest. He had asked the commission to consider the petition on an urgent basis.

Family members of interior designer Anvay Naik, who had committed suicide in 2018 over alleged non-payment of dues by Republic TV, on Wednesday claimed Republic editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami had tried to derail the probe. Naik’s daughter Adnya and wife Akshata claimed they had sent applications seeking justice to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and Raigad superintendent of police.