Give Arnab Goswami 3-Day Notice In Case Of His Arrest: High Court To Cops

"If during the course of the investigation, you come across something and you want to take coercive action against petitioner number 2 (Arnab Goswami), then you will give 72 hours prior notice," the bench said.

The Bombay High Court today directed the Mumbai Police to give an advance notice of three days to Republic TV's editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami if it wanted to arrest him in the Television Rating Point (TRP) scam case. A bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale also dismissed the submission of state counsel Deepak Thakre that Arnab Goswami had to face the investigation and could not claim any special status. The bench noted the police had been investigating the case for three months now and was yet to name Arnab Goswami as an accused in the case. Arnab Goswami is named as a suspect in the chargesheet, and therefore, the "sword" of impending arrest is left hanging over his head, it said.