No coercive action against Republic TV editor, employees till Wednesday: Maharashtra government to Bombay HC

Following an assurance by the state and Mumbai Police that they would not take any coercive action against the editor-in-chief of Republic TV Arnab Goswami and other employees of the channel till Wednesday, the Bombay high court (HC) on Tuesday said it would hear applications seeking quashing of the first information report (FIR) and charge-sheet filed against Goswami and the applications filed by the Hansa group on Wednesday.

While hearing the applications and petitions filed in the TRP (television rating points) manipulation case by Republic TV, Arnab Goswami and others, the division bench of justice SS Shinde and justice MS Karnik was informed by senior counsel Aabad Ponda that they were apprehensive of Mumbai Police arresting Goswami and other employees of Republic TV, and hence sought an interim order restraining the Mumbai Police from doing so.