Archive · 15 Aug 2026
Bombay High Court: Goswami case shouldn't be a proxy war
Arnab Goswami is the editor-in-chief — the head — of a TV news channel called Republic TV.
Police were looking into the sad death of an interior designer, a person who designs homes, who died by suicide.
The case claimed that Arnab was involved in encouraging this, which the law calls abetment to suicide.
Arnab went to the Bombay High Court to ask the judges to stop the case against him.
The judge hearing the plea said the case should not become a "proxy kind of a war," or a fight carried out through the court.
The judge also said a lot of time has passed since 2020 and everyone should look at the case with a fresh mind.
The government's lawyer told the court the case was first closed in 2018 but was opened again in 2020.
Arnab's lawyer said the government reopened the case because of anger and dislike toward Arnab, not because of fairness.
Now the court will decide what happens next.
The Bombay High Court heard Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami's plea against a case of alleged abetment to suicide in an interior designer's suicide case.
The court orally remarked that the proceedings should not be a "proxy kind of a war."
The bench said parties can look at the case with a "different perspective" since "much water had flown since 2020."
The state's lawyer told the court a closure report had been filed in 2018, but the probe was reopened later in 2020.
Goswami's counsel Niranjan Mundargi alleged the probe was reopened out of "vendetta" and the "personal animosity" of the political dispensation in Maharashtra.
- Who
- Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV, who appeared before a single-judge bench of Justice Milind N Jadhav of the Bombay High Court
- What
- The Bombay High Court heard Goswami's plea against a case of alleged abetment to suicide in an interior designer's suicide case; a closure report was filed in 2018 but the probe was reopened in 2020
- When
- Friday (the article does not give a specific date)
- Where
- Bombay High Court
- Why
- Goswami's counsel argued the probe was reopened by the Maharashtra government out of vendetta and personal animosity, while the court said the proceedings should not be a proxy war
Goswami's side
State government's side
Why the probe was reopened
Goswami's side
Goswami's counsel Niranjan Mundargi said the state government reopened the probe on its own in 2020 out of "vendetta" and the "personal animosity" of the political dispensation in Maharashtra.
State government's side
The state's lawyer told the court that a closure report had been filed in 2018, and the probe was later reopened in 2020.
How the case should be viewed
Goswami's side
Goswami's side suggested the proceedings amount to a politically driven battle against him and argued the case should not proceed on such grounds.
State government's side
The court remarked the proceedings should not be a "proxy kind of a war" and that parties can look at the case with a "different perspective" since much water has flown since 2020.
- Court
- Bombay High Court
- Bench
- Single-judge bench of Justice Milind N Jadhav
- Petitioner
- Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV
- Nature of case
- Alleged abetment to suicide in an interior designer's suicide case
- Closure report
- Filed in 2018
- Probe reopened
- 2020
- Goswami's counsel
- Niranjan Mundargi
- Key oral remark
- Case should not be a "proxy kind of a war"; parties can look at it with a different perspective