India’s premier news agency has reported that Mr Goswami has been arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 53-year-old interior designer.
Highlights:
- Mumbai police have arrested Indian journalist Arnab Goswami in a case of May 2018.
- Arnab Goswami arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 53-year-old interior designer.
- Many ministers of the Indian government have termed the action worrisome and unwarranted.
“Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 53-year-old interior designer, say police,” tweeted the news agency.
In May 2018, an interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother Kumud Naik died by suicide in Alibaug. According to the Indian media, a suicide note was found.
Mr Naik “said that Goswami and two others — Feroz Shaikh and Niteish Sarda —had not paid him Rs 5.40 crore which led to his financial constraints,” reported the Hindustan Times.
Mr Goswami’s news channel Republic Media Network says it is a black day of India’s democracy.
“In a black day of India’s democracy, Editor-in-Chief of the number one network of India was dragged by his hair and arrested. Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh’s cops shut off cameras, and thrashed Arnab,” read a statement by the channel.
Many ministers of the Indian government have termed the action worrisome and unwarranted.
“The arrest of senior journalist Arnab Goswami is seriously reprehensible, unwarranted and worrisome. We had fought for freedoms of Press as well while opposing the draconian Emergence of 1975,” tweeted Law & Justice minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Mumbai police have not made any public statement yet.
