A huge political uproar has erupted after Mumbai Police dragged senior journalist Arnab Goswami from his house and arrested him abetment of suicide case. Around 8 a.m., a team of over a dozen senior police officials from Mumbai and Raigad, several of them armed -- led by former ‘encounter specialist' and now with the elite Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) Sachin Vaze -- descended on his Worli home in Raheja Complex to pick him up.
Arnab was taken to Alibag, around 90 km from Mumbai, and was produced in a court. The hearing went on till late night on Wednesday. Police had sought Goswami’s custody for 14 days, but the court held that custodial interrogation was not required. The other two arrested accused in the case, Feroze Mohammed Shaikh and Nitesh Sarda, were also produced in the Alibaug court on Wednesday and remanded to judicial custody till November 18.
Now, going by the reports Arnab was sent to a local school which has been designated as a Covid-19 centre for the Alibag prison to spend the night. This was to complete his quarantine period before being sent to the main prison.