Alibaug court reserves order on cops’ plea for Arnab’s custody

A sessions court in Raigad district of Maharashtra on Tuesday reserved its decision on the police’s plea challenging a magistrate’s order denying them custody of Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and two others in an abetment of suicide case.

Additional Sessions Judge at Alibaug, R G Malashetti said the court would pass the order on the revision application filed by local police on November 12.

It would also hear bail appllications of Goswami and co-accused Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda on the same day, the court said.

Goswami was arrested on November 4 from his residence in Mumbai and taken to Alibaug in the case related to the 2018 suicide of interior designer Anvay Naik and Naik’s mother.