Supreme Court grants interim bail to Arnab Gauswam

New delhi date. 11 November 2020, Wednesday

The Supreme Court has ordered the release of Arnab Gauswami and other co-accused on interim bail. A bench of Justices Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee held that the Bombay High Court should have granted interim bail to the accused in the case.

Arnab Gauswami was arrested on November 4 in 2018 in connection with the suicide of interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother.

Arnab Gauswami had challenged the Bombay High Court's November 9 order in the Supreme Court in which he refused to grant interim bail to two other accused, Feroz Sheikh and Nitish Sarda, saying it did not constitute a case for exercising our extraordinary rights.

Arnab and the other accused had requested the High Court to stay the investigation of the case along with interim bail and quash the complaint registered against them.

Arnab was arrested from his residence in Mumbai and taken to Alibag in neighboring Raigad district. The other two accused were later produced before a magistrate who refused to send the accused into police custody. The court remanded the trio to judicial custody until November 18.

Gauswami was initially housed on the campus of a local school in the form of a corona isolation center for Alibad Jail. But on Sunday, he was sent to Taloja jail in Raigad district on charges of using a mobile phone during judicial custody.