Senior Mumbai police officer files defamation complaint against Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami

MUMBAI: A deputy commissioner of police (DCP) in Mumbai on Wednesday filed a criminal defamation complaint against Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami over the coverage of the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.

DCP (Zone-IX) Abhishek Trimukhe’s complaint before a sessions court here also named ARG Outlier Media Private Limited which owns Republic Media Network, and Goswami’s wife as she is one of its directors. “There were some tweets which misrepresented Trimukhe. He had written about it to the Maharashtra government. The state home department gave its sanction (to file a complaint),” a senior police official said.