Supreme Court Hearing Arnab Goswami's Petition [LIVE-UPDATES]

The Bench has directed the Commissioner of Police , Mumbai to give protection to Republic TV Office and the Petitioner

'The Petitioner must cooperate with investigation', said the Bench

"Save and except for FIR registered at Nagpur, (FIR number 238 of 2020 dated April 22, 2020 registered at Nagpur, further proceedings arising out of and relating to FIRs and complaints listed out petition shall remain stayed until further orders."

The Bench also held that if there is any other FIRs filed thereafter, (arising out of or related to present cause of action) shall also remain stayed till further orders.

A bench comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah said ' no coercive actions to be taken against him for two weeks.

"Court intends to protect the petitioner for a period of two weeks form today and permit him to move anticipatory bail application before the trial court or high court. For a period of two weeks, the petitioner shall be protected against any coercive steps in relation to the FIRs arising out of the telecast which took place on April 21"

Sr. Adv. Mukul Rohatgi : "We have also asked for protection for our office. Let the state or centre look into it."

Senior Adv. Mukul Rohatgi is consulting #arnabgoswami right now. Sr. Adv Vivek Tankha asks for a restraint order on #arnabgoswami from making such statements.

Chandrachud J. - There should be no restraint on the media. I am averse to imposing any restrictions on media.

Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal: "The court must clarify that its order will have no bearing on the merits of the application."

Court says #ARNABGOSWAMI cannot be subject to proceedings in different parts of the country. 

Second thing which we will do is that we will stay further proceedings in all fIRs except one. Cause of action appears to be in one state. So we will stay the FIR pending the amendment of the petition : Justice Chandrachud

Justice Chandrachud: Court intends to protect the petitioner for a period of two weeks form today and permit him to move anticipatory bail application before the trial court or high court. 

"My client is not a political person, why has Sibal talked about @RahulGandhi?

Sadhus are being killed. Goswami never spoke of Hindus or muslims" Rohatgi says, denying the allegation that there was incitement on communal lines.

"Why this kind of brutal incidents happened despite the police presence? he only wanted to show this in his show" argues Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi for #ArnabGoswami

"This court has risen to many occasions and protection" he adds.