Arnab Goswami Case : Live Updates From Alibag Sessions Court Hearing On Police Custody/Bail

Alibag Sessions court posts the bail applications day after tomorrow. The order on revision petition will also be pronounced day after tomorrow.

Prosecutor submits if police custody is allowed, bail hearing is infructuous.

Prosecutor submits if police custody is allowed, bail hearing is infructuous.

Update from Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow the special leave petition filed by Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami challenging the November 9 order of the Bombay High Court refusing him interim bail in the 2018 abetment to suicide case.

A vacation bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee will consider the petition of Goswami, who has been under custody since November 4 in the case.

Prosecutor requests that revision order should be passed tomorrow before bail hearing starts.

Alibag Sessions Court reserves order in the revision petition filed by police seeking police custody of the accused. Court says order in revision can be passed day after tomorrow and that bail applications will be heard tomorrow.

Prosecutor concludes arguments.

Lawyer for co-accused Nitesh Sarda interjects to submit that HC had said that the observations are preliminary in nature and had clarified that Sessions Court should not get influenced by those observations.

Proseutor : The daughter came to know about the closure report through Twitter and after that she started running from pillar to post.

Prosecutor reads from HC order to point out how the High Court rejected the defense argument that Magistrate was not informed before reinvestigation was started.