Mumbai: On Wednesday morning, the Maharashtra Police Raigad unit raided the house of Republic TV owner and arrested its Chief Editor Arnab Goswami in abetment to suicide case.
The arrested was reportedly carried out in connection with the death of interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother Kumud Naik in Alibaug in 2018.
The 53-year-old interior designer Naik and his mother Kumud Naik had died by committing suicide in May 2018. A suicide letter reportedly was written by Naik in which he claimed that Goswami and two others owed him Rs 5.4 crore and had wouldn’t repay it, driving him to take the extreme step.
The financial transaction had occurred during the construction of the Republic TV studio. At the point when Naik’s mother found out about Naik’s death, she also committed suicide.
The Alibaug police had filed a case of abetment to suicide the very month yet the case was purportedly shut by the Raigad police in 2019.
However, in May this year, the Maharashtra government ordered a new inquiry into the case against Goswami and two others by the state Criminal Investigation Department.
The charges were denied by Republic TV before and claimed that a false and malicious campaign” was being run against it by specific groups with a vested interest.
Sachin Vaze, a senior police officer, stated that Goswami was taken into custody in the abetment to the suicide case of 2018, which had been shut earlier and has now been reopened.
A team of police approached the Republic TV’s chief and picked him up from his house even as his family opposed while his colleagues began rushing to the spot for live coverage.
The channel heavily criticized the move for “parading the editor of a top Indian news channel like a criminal, pulled by the hair, threatened, not allowed to drink water” after 20-30 police officers barged in there.
Talking from one of the vehicles, Goswami said he was assaulted, even as his shaken colleagues made a direct emotional plea to the Supreme Court and High Court judges “looking for justice” for what was occurring right in the centre of Mumbai, in a telecast of the turns of events.
Arnab Goswami managed to talk from a police van that he was assaulted, his in-laws got shoved aside and his son was beaten, and he was probably going to be taken to Alibaug in Raigad.
