The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said that there was nothing substantial on record against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami eve...
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said that there was nothing substantial on record against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami even after three months of investigation by the Mumbai Police in the alleged Television Rating Points scam, Live Law reported.
A bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale asked Chief Public Prosecutor Deepak Thakare how much more time they would take to complete the inquiry against Goswami and ARG Outlier Media, the company that owns Republic TV channels. “The investigation is going on for the last three months,” Justice Shinde said. “We don’t see anything that has surfaced on record to array the petitioners as accused.”
Thakare informed that the police was still collecting evidence in the case, and wanted to continue the probe.
The court asked why Goswami had not been named as an accused in the first information report, according to The Hindu. It also directed the prosecutor to inform it by Thursday if they plan to do so.
Justice Pitale said at best, the company and Goswami, were only suspects as of now. “You are not accused,” he said. “You say quash the proceeding, but, what can be quashed and against whom, when you are not accused?”
The court said the Maharashtra government must be reasonable and if police did not find anything...
