The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Alibaug, on Monday permitted the Maharashtra Police’s Crime Branch to interrogate Republic TV Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami daily for three hours. This decision came only a few hours after the Bombay High Court had rejected his interim bail plea.
The orders came in an application of November 5 by the Crime Branch of Raigad police seeking permission to question Goswami at Taloja Central Jail where he is currently lodged in judicial custody till November 18.
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In its application, the police had pointed out that since the Magistrate's court had remanded Goswami to judicial custody late on November 4 post-arrest earlier that day, the investigations pertaining to the offences alleged against him and collecting evidence in this regard could not be carried out in detail.
Naik's widow Akshata Naik and their daughter Adnya Naik, have filed a separate plea seeking a reinvestigation into the case or transferring it to an independent agency for the probe.
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