Republic TV’s founder and editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami. (File photo)
After the Maharashtra government gave an assurance that it would not take any coercive action against Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and other employees of the ARG Outlier Media Private Limited, which runs the channel, till Wednesday, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday said that it will hear the channel’s plea seeking quashing of the Mumbai Police FIR in the TRP scam fraud case and also against the chargesheet filed by the police.
A division bench of Justice S S Shinde and Justice M S Karnik, while hearing the pleas by ARG Outlier and Goswami, was informed by senior counsel Aabad Ponda that there is an apprehensive that the Mumbai Police would arrest Goswami and other channel employees and hence, an interim relief restraining the police from doing so till the next hearing on Wednesday has been sought.