Arnab Goswami's Habeas Corpus Plea Against His Arrest - Live-Updates From Bombay High Court

Justice Shinde says the bench will hear both the sides and pass an appropriate order tomorrow.

Bombay High Courts posts the petition of #ArnabGoswami challenging his arrest in 2018 abetmenet to suicide case for hearing tomorrow at 3 PM.

The bench will consider the prayer for interim order for release.

The bench says it will post the matter for hearing tomorrow at 3 PM.

The bench allows the amendment of the petition to implead the informant in the petition of #ArnabGoswami

Salve : Please give us leave to amend the petition and add the informant here itself. Give us oral leave. The informant is here and may be heard now itself. Will file a formal amendment tomorrow.

Ponda : Informant never went to a court of law seeking reinvestigation after the closure. It is the police who suo moto revived the case.

Ponda : The limited relief I am seeking is only against the police and not against the informant (Naik family).

Justice Shinde asks if the informant is a necessary party to the petition of #ArnabGoswami .

Informant is not made a party in your petition, Justice Shinde says.

2. Stay of investigation can be ordered when it is illegal and affects liberty of a citizen: Ponda.

Ponda summarizes the proposition :

1. Without judicial order, further investigation could not be done. So arrest is illegal.