Anvay naik suicide case: Raigad police drops key charge against Arnab, two others

THE RAIGAD police, in the 1,914-page chargesheet filed in the Anvay Naik suicide case on Friday, have dropped the charge that indicated that the three accused, including Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, together conspired to drive Naik to suicide in April 2018.

Naik, an interior decorator, had named Goswami, Feroz Shaikh of IcastX/Skimedia and Niteish Sarda of Smartworks as responsible for the suicide. He had worked for them and wrote in the suicide note that they had not paid him Rs 5.40 crore for the work.

While the FIR registered by the Raigad police soon after the incident had added IPC Section 34 (common intent) — which meant the three had worked together to drive Naik to commit suicide — the chargesheet has dropped that section.