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Arresting of Arnab Goswami: See in this video what happened exactly?
Arnab Goswami, a senior journalist has been arrested in connection with an abetment to suicide case. Full deatils on Dynamite News.
Mumbai: Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami was on Wednesday arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 53-year-old interior designer in 2018, a police official said.
The official said a team of Alibaug police picked up Goswami from his Lower Parel house in the morning. Goswami, who was seen being pushed into the police van, claimed he was assaulted by police at his home, before being taken away.
"Alibaug police arrested Goswami under sections 306 (abetment of suicide), and 34 (acts done by persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
This (arrest) pertains to the 2018 case of a man and his mother committing suicide. We have evidence (against Goswami)," the police official said.
"When we gave the intimation (of arrest) to Goswami's wife, she tore up the paper," said the official who was present at Goswami's home when he was picked up by police.
Soon after the vehicle carrying Goswami reached Alibaug, just over 90 km from Mumbai, he was produced in a local court, which directed police to take him to the civil hospital there for medical check-up, after his lawyer alleged the senior journalist was assaulted by police.
"Goswami was produced before a magistrate court in Alibaug where he complained of physical assault at the hands of the police team that barged into his house this morning, Goswami's lawyer Gaurav Parkar said.
The magistrate took note of the allegations and directed the police to take Goswami to the civil hospital for medical check-up.
"After the medical check-up, Goswami will be brought back to the court for hearing on his remand. The court will consider the medical reports at that time," Parkar said.
The architect and his mother committed suicide over alleged non-payment of dues by Republic TV, police said.