On Wednesday, Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and his wife Samyabrata Ray Goswami approached a Sessions Court here seeking pre-arrest bail in a case registered against them for allegedly assaulting a woman police officer. Earlier in the day, the Apex Court granted Goswami interim bail in a case of alleged abetment to suicide of interior designer Anvay Naik in 2018. He was released from Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai late in the evening.
Last week, an FIR was registered against Goswami, his wife and his son at N M Joshi Marg Police Station in central Mumbai for allegedly assaulting a woman police officer when a Police team went to his house to arrest him in the suicide case on Nov 4. Goswami and Samyabrata on Wednesday filed anticipatory bail petitions which are likely to be heard by Additional Sessions Judge P B Jadhav on Thursday, Court sources said.
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Advocate Shyam Kalyankar, their lawyer, said Goswami and his wife had only verbally protested his "illegal arrest" from his Lower Parel house here last Wednesday. "Neither Goswami nor his wife assaulted any police official. We are relying on several videos recorded in the morning of Nov 4 when the police barged into their house," he said.
Around forty armed Police personnel were present at the time of the alleged incident, the lawyer alleged, asking "who will deter a public servant (from doing his duty) in the presence of such a huge number". "We were only protesting the illegal arrest," Kalyankar said.
Goswami and his wife were booked under the Indian Penal Code sections 353 (assault to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) and under the Damage to Public Property Act. The complainant in the case is 49-year-old police officer Sujata Tanvade, who alleged that Goswami, his wife and son assaulted her on that day.
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