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

Justice Chandrachud (smiling) : Mr.Singh, when a lawyer reads a line from a decision, the judge instinctively goes back to the previous lines.

Rohatgi reads from a decision.

C U Singh interferes: Mr Rohatgi, please read from the beginning.

Rohatgi : Don't interrupt. I will not read.

Rohatgi : The remand application repeatedly uses the word "re-investigation" and not "further-investigation".

There cannot be a "re-investigation" without an order of the Court.

Rohatgi : The three accused have no connections between them. There is no question of my client inciting, abetting or egging on Anvay Naik to suicide.

Senior Adv Mukul Rohatgi now making submissions for co-accused Neetish Sarda.

'I have never met him(AnvayNaik). I am a 27 year old man having 0.3 percent share in the company which gave contract to Naik's company'.

Gopal Shankaranarayanan : My client is a "collateral damage" of the Government going after Arnab Goswami.

Gopal Shankaranarayanan : There is no whisper against my client (Firoz Md Sheikh) in Akshata Naik's complaint.

Gopal Shankaranarayan refers to 'living will' decision of SC in 'Common Cause' which says that 'abetment' refers to a course of conduct and not a solitary instance but a series of events.

There are five levels of separation between the accused and the deceased : Gopal Shankaranarayanan.

This cannot be a case for custodial interrogation : Justice Chandrachud.

Firoz Md Sheikh is a director of the company which hired another company which in turn gave contract to Anvay Naik. The principle in 'Sunil Bharati Mittal' case that criminal liability of company cannot be extrapolated will apply here : GS