MUMBAI: The Alibaug chief judicial magistrate on Friday granted permission to police to interrogate Arnab Goswami and the two other accused in Judicial custody for three hours daily, it emerged on Monday. As Goswami was sent to judicial custody last Wednesday, police had sought permission from the magistrate to question him and the other two accused in the Anvay Naik abetment to suicide case, saying without police custody, their probe had halted as their revision application against grant of judicial custody before the sessions court was pending.
The court granted permission to interrogate the three, as otherwise under law, police do not have access to an accused who is in jail custody without an order of the court. A 10-member squad of Raigad police on Monday interrogated Goswami and two others who are now lodged in Taloja jail for three hours, Inspector Jamil Shaikh of Raigad crime branch, who is the investigating officer, said. The officer said three teams interrogated Goswami, Firoz Shaikh and Neetish Sarda in the afternoon.
Inspector Shaikh said, “Interrogating the accused Arnab Goswami lodged at Taloja jail will be a time-consuming affair as we will have to travel daily for two hours from Alibaug to reach Taloja jail and will have restrictions to interrogate him only for three hours as per the CJM order. Police custody would be convenient to carry out the interrogation.”
