Live Updates° : Arnab's Plea Heard At SC
Arnab Goswami’s Plea Is Being Heard At The SC
Arnab is Represented By a Senior Lawyer HARISH SALVE
1:03pm : Supreme Court reserves its Order, says interim protection granted to Goswami on April 24 shall continue to be in operation till the order is pronounced.
1:00pm : Sibal says that if the FIRs are the same, the court may quash them, but Mr. Arnab Goswami has said that the Congress Party is behind communal disharmony.
1:00pm : JUSTICE DY Chandrachud expresses inclination to extend the interim protection granted to Arnab Goswami., While the court reserves its judgment. ” All the FIRs word to word same, ” JUSTICE Chandrachud says referring to the first set of FIRs.
12:51pm : Salve also questions the case made out against Goswami, says that different parts of the program 8n question have been taken out of context to make case against him.
12:48pm : Salve says that the affidavit filed by the police chief seeking protection from Court against an accused is “distressing.”
12:45pm : Salve argues that all the complaints in the first set of FIRs were members of one political party. ” They want to teach this Journalist a lesson”, Salve tell Supreme Court.
12:40pm : Salve submits that the action against Goswami is a concentrated action by one political party, and also says that One Political Party is targeting Journalist who are opposing them.
12:39pm : Salve says his submission is that the probe should be taken away from the Mumbai Police.
12:37pm : Salve makes rejoinder arguments, says they are trying to stifle a voice unpleasant for them. Salve says Police is trying to “Teach Me (Goswami) and my profession a lesson” by sending out a message that “what we are doing is wrong”
12:31pm : Mehata says thet If a primary facie case is made out against Goswami then the only solution appears to be to transfer the probe to an independent agency. The agency would not need insulation from threat.
12:28pm : SG Mehta says that the difference between other cases and this case is that the Police has made counter allegations in this case regarding threat and pressure.
12:21pm : SG Mehta says that the way in which the State Police has acted with respect to Goswami is undesirable “in a matter of this nature”. Mehta says this is the first time Police has sought to be insulated from threat and the accused has also said he has no faith in the Police.
12:15pm :Senior Counsel KV Vishwanathan making submissions on behalf of the complainant in the second FIR filed against Goswami. The second FIR is in relation to Goswami’s debate program on the Bandra migrant incident of April and Goswami is accused of communalising the incident.
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