TRP case: No coercive action against Arnab Goswami, others till Jan 6, police tells HC

After the state government gave an assurance that it would not take any coercive action against Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and other employees of ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd in the TRP fraud case till further hearing, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday accepted the statement and continued the earlier relief. The HC had given interim relief to Republic TV employees from coercive action till Wednesday, which it continued till January 6.

A division bench of Justice S S Shinde and Justice M S Karnik also continued an interim relief through which it directed Mumbai Police to summon employees of Hansa Research Group, complainant in the case, for inquiry only two days a week for a “reasonable time” until the next hearing. The company had asked for the probe to be transferred to the CBI.