Arnab Goswami case

  • Republic TV owner and editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami was on November 4 arrested by Maharashtra Police in connection with a 2018 suicide case. 
  • In 2018, an architect and his mother died by suicide over alleged non-payment of dues by Goswami’s Republic TV.
THE CASE
  • Interior designer Anvay Naik, along with his mother Kumud Naik, were found dead at their bungalow in Alibaug in May 2018. 
  • The police said Anvay, had committed suicide.
  • The post mortem report of Kumud indicated that she had been strangulated and did not commit suicide.
  • Police believe Anvay killed her before committing suicide. 
  • Following that, the police registered an accidental death report and a case of murder. 
WHY FIR WAS REGISTERED AGAINST ARNAB?
  • The police had found a suicide note written in English in which Anvay said 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.
  • The three were television journalist Arnab Goswami of Republic TV, Feroz Shaikh of IcastX/Skimedia and Niteish Sarda of Smartworks.
  • The three firms owed Naik’s company, Concorde Designs Pvt Ltd, Rs 83 lakh, Rs 4 crore and Rs 55 lakh respectively, the note added. 
  • An officer said that during the investigation they found that Anvay was in heavy debt and was struggling to repay money to contractors.
  • The Raigad police also found that Naik had an NC registered against a contractor in Mumbai after the latter had threatened him to repay the money he had taken. 
  • Goswami had however denied this charge and said that he had made the payments.
  • The local Raigad police that has been investigating the case closed the case in April 2019.
  • It said that they did not find evidence against the accused named in the suicide note, including Goswami.
THE RECENT EVENTS?
  • In May 2020, Anvay’s daughter approached the Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh seeking the case be reopened. 
  • Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had tweeted in May, “Adnya Naik had complained to me that Alibaug Police had not investigated non-payment of dues from Arnab Goswami’s Republic which drove  her entrepreneur father and grandma to suicide in May 2018. I’ve ordered a CID re-investigation of the case.”
  • Adnya had also alleged that the police had not investigated the angle of Rs 83 lakh that Goswami had not paid her father that drove him to commit suicide.
  • The Maharashtra Police will now be questioning Goswami and ask him to provide evidence to back his claims that he had made the payments due to Anvay. 
  • Depending on the investigation they will decide to either close the case or chargesheet him.
OTHER CASES
  • Republic has been named in the TRP scam where the channel along with five others was allegedly involved in making payments for boosting TRPs.
  • An FIR has been registered against Goswami for ‘incitement to disaffection’ over a show in which the channel said that several officers in Mumbai police were against action of commissioner Param Bir Singh.
  • Apart from this, two FIRs were registered against Goswami for allegedly communalising incidents like the gathering of migrants outside Bandra railway station and the lynching of Sadhus in Palghar. 
  • Following these two FIRs, chapter proceedings too had been initiated against Goswami and he was asked to sign a bond of good behaviour.
  • Goswami had approached the Supreme Court against these FIRs and was asked to approach the Bombay High Court 
  • The Bombay High Court on November 9, however, refused to grant interim bail to Mr. Goswami and two others.
  • Now, Arnab has approached the apex court.


SOURCE: IE

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