The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted additional time to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami to amend his petition and place on document the cost sheet filed towards him and two others in a 2018 case of abetment of suicide of an inside designer.
Goswami and the 2 different accused Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda should seem earlier than a Justice of the Peace court docket at Alibaug in neighbouring Raigad district of Maharashtra on Thursday, pursuant to summons issued to them in December 2020.
On December 16, 2020, the Justice of the Peace’s court docket took cognisance of the cost sheet filed by Alibaug police within the case and directed the three accused to look earlier than it on January 7 to commit the case to a classes court docket.
As the costs invoked within the case are punishable for greater than seven years, the trial within the case should be performed by a classes court docket.
In November final 12 months, Goswami filed a petition within the excessive court docket, searching for to quash the FIR registered towards him by the Alibaug police.
He later sought to amend his petition in order to problem the cost sheet filed by the police.
The similar was allowed by the HC in December 2020.
On Wednesday, advocate Niranjan Mundargi, showing for Goswami, sought additional time to hold out the modification.
“The charge sheet is bulky and is in Marathi. We need to translate it to English and hence, we need some more time to do so,” Mundargi stated.
The court docket accepted it and posted the petition for listening to on February 11.
Advocate Vijay Aggarwal, showing for accused Nitish Sarda, who has additionally filed a petition within the HC towards the FIR, sought that the court docket hear his arguments.
Aggarwal stated the accused individuals have been requested to look earlier than the Justice of the Peace’s court docket on Thursday.
To this, Justice Shinde stated, “So appear there. What is going to happen? The trial is not going to start tomorrow.”
The court docket posted Sarda’s plea additionally for listening to on February 11.
The three accused had been arrested by the Alibaug police on November 4, 2020.
It is the police’s case that architect and inside designer Anvay Naik dedicated suicide in May 2018 over alleged non-payment of dues by firms of the accused individuals.
Goswamiin November final 12 months filed a petition within the HC searching for to quash the FIR, and in addition sought interim bail.
The HC on November 9 refused to grant interim bail following whichGoswamiapproached the Supreme Court.
The SC on November 11 granted interim bail to Goswami.
The police filed the cost sheet within the case final month.
