Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis should be made a “co-accused” in the abetment to suicide case against Republic TV E...
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis should be made a “co-accused” in the abetment to suicide case against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, Nationalist Congress Party spokesperson Umesh Patil said on Wednesday, reported The Indian Express.
On Wednesday, the Mumbai Police took the Republic TV editor-in-chief into custody for allegedly abetting the suicide of an interior designer in Alibaug in 2018. Anvay Naik, managing director of Concorde Designs Private Limited, and his mother Kumud Naik were found dead in their home in Kavir village of Alibaug. A suicide note by Naik accused Goswami and two others – Feroz Shaikh and Niteish Sarda – of not paying dues worth Rs 5.40 crore.
“From the press conference of Naik’s family, it has become clear that pressure was...put on them to sign papers related to closure of the suicide case,” the NCP spokesperson said. “Since at that time, the Home ministry portfolio was with then chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, he should be made a co-accused in the case. The police officials who tried to pressure Naik family should also be made co-accused.”
Patil said the way BJP ministers and political leaders have come out in support of Goswami clearly revealed that the journalist “is a BJP worker”. In Uttar Pradesh, when a journalist wrote an...
