[Arnab Goswami's Plea Against His Arrest In 2018 Abetment To Suicide Case] Live Updates From Bombay High Court

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6 Nov 2020 3:10 PM IST

  • [Arnab Goswamis Plea Against His Arrest In 2018 Abetment To Suicide Case] Live Updates From Bombay High Court

    Bombay High Court is hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by #ArnabGoswami against his arrest in the 2018 abetment to suicide case.The bench to consider his prayer for interim release today.Yesterday a division bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik had refused to grant interim relief observing that the bench needed to hear the State and the complainant Adnya Naik.Goswami was arrested...

    Bombay High Court is hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by #ArnabGoswami against his arrest in the 2018 abetment to suicide case.

    The bench to consider his prayer for interim release today.

    Yesterday a division bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik had refused to grant interim relief observing that the bench needed to hear the State and the complainant Adnya Naik.

    Goswami was arrested by Raigad police from his Mumbai residence on November 4 morning following which the CJM of Alibag remanded him to 14-day judicial custody till November 18.

    Live Updates

    • 6 Nov 2020 4:23 PM IST

      Salve : Under these circumstances, there is no need to keep him in custody.

    • 6 Nov 2020 4:23 PM IST

      Salve : The Magistrate rightly asked why the mother committed suicide

    • 6 Nov 2020 4:22 PM IST

      Salve : What are the admitted facts?For two years there was money problem. Somebody owed 4 crores. Somebody owed 83 lakhs. 

    • 6 Nov 2020 4:22 PM IST

      Salve : I can cite a half a dozen more cases. But I think I have made the point clear.

    • 6 Nov 2020 4:22 PM IST

      Salve - Please mark the words "proximate to the time of occurrence".

    • 6 Nov 2020 4:21 PM IST

      "Merely on the allegation of harassment without there being any positive action proximate to the time of occurrence on the part of the accused which led or compelled the person to commit suicide, conviction in terms of Section 306 IPC is not sustainable" - Salve quotes .

    • 6 Nov 2020 4:21 PM IST

      "It also requires an active act or direct act which led the deceased to commit suicide seeing no option and that act must have been intended to push the deceased into such a position that he committed suicide" - Salve quotes from the Gurucharan Singh judgment.

    • 6 Nov 2020 4:20 PM IST

      "Without a positive act on the part of the accused to instigate or aid in committing suicide, conviction cannot be sustained"- Salve quotes from Gurucharan Singh judgment

    • 6 Nov 2020 4:19 PM IST

      Salve now refers to the recent SC judgment in 'Gurucharan Singh v State of Punjab

    • 6 Nov 2020 4:16 PM IST

      The intention of the accused to aid or instigate or abet the deceased to commit suicide is necessary for abetment to suicide offence, Salve submits referring to M Arjunan decision.

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