[Breaking] "If State Govts Targets Individual They Must Realise That SC is Here To Protect Them": Supreme Court Grants Interim Bail To Arnab Goswami

Sibal : There is a judicial remand order. There is an investigation.

Justice Chandrachud : Is this a case where custody should continue?

Sibal : Today there is evidence on record. There cannot be grant of bail without looking at the evidence.

Court is not allowing us to file the papers.

Sibal : How can you grant bail on the basis of an FIR? FIR is just first information. Not an encyclopedia. Investigation is in progress.

Chandrachud : Even in cases of anticipatory bail, the Courts pass interim order not to arrest while notice is issued to prosecution.

Sibal(for State) : The bail application of Arnab Goswami is being decided tomorrow.

Sibal (for State) : The High Court kept telling them move bail, and that no order can be passed without hearing state.

Kapil Sibal(for State) : We are really jumping the gun here. In HC there was no opportunity for us to file affidavits. Same thing happening here. This is a strange procedure.

Justice Chandrachud says it is better for the Supreme Court to not make observations on the legal aspects of the case as the issue is pending there and will confine to the point of interim relief.

Rohatgi : Cases are quashed even on a lesser footing. If this become a precedent, many industrialists in the country will go to jail!

Rohatgi : What difference would it make if 439 is available? One can directly move the High Court also under 439.