The Mumbai Police on Wednesday arrested Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami from his Mumbai house in the case of abetment to suicide of interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother Kumud Naik in Alibaug in 2018. 53-year-old Naik had constructed Republic TV studio. Naik had died by suicide in May 2018. A suicide note by Naik had claimed that Arnab Goswami and two others owed him Rs 5.4 crore and had refused to pay him back, thus forcing him to take his own life. After learning about Naik’s suicide, his mother Kumud Naik also killed herself.

A case of abetment to suicide was registered by Alibaug police at the same time but was reportedly closed by the Raigad police in 2019. But in May this year the Maharashtra government had reopened the case and had ordered a fresh inquiry into the case against Goswami and two others by the state Criminal Investigation Department.

Arnab Goswami has claimed that police barged into his house at 7.45am and physically assaulted him and dragged out of his home in a police van. He said the police forcefully turned all the cameras off.

Several ministers have condemned Arnab Goswami’s arrest.

Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday condemned the arrest of Arnab Goswami by the Raigad unit of Maharashtra Police and urged the people to stand up against fascism.

Tweeting about the incident Prakash Javadekar said the country condemn the attack on press freedom in Maharashtra. This is not the way to treat the Press. This reminds the country of the emergency days when the press was treated like this.

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External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar tweeted, the arrest of Goswami is an attack on the freedom of press.

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Meanwhille, family of Anvay Naik is demanding justice by doing a press conference.

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The spate of deaths by suicide by NEET aspirants in Tamil Nadu continued with an 18-year-old girl from Madurai ending her life, a day before the medical examination was to be held on Saturday. The girl left a suicide note in which she wrote about the stress she was undergoing and the fear of failing the exam and thereby not getting a seat in a good medical college.

She is said to be a police sub-inspector’s daughter and this was to be her second attempt at NEET. In her suicide note found in a book of hers, she asked her family members not to blame themselves for her death by suicide. She said she was taking this extreme step out of fear of failing the exam. Madurai Police have sent her body for an autopsy.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam  (DMK) chief MK Stalin, a very vocal and fierce critic of holding the NEET in the first place, had also been at the forefront opposing the holding of the career-defining exam under the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic. He had asked the Central government to defer this year’s NEET for medical college admission.

Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam  (MDMK) founder and Rajya Sabha MP Vaiko also slammed the BJP-led Centre, saying students were ending up taking their own lives due to the “imposition” of NEET on them.

 Apart from scoring good marks in Class 12 exams, Vaiko said students from poor backgrounds were being filtered out by NEET and their dreams of getting into good colleges remains a dream. He further added the cancellation of NEET can prevent such deaths.

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The AIADMK-led state government and opposition parties in Tamil Nadu have been against holding NEET and JEE Mains during the pandemic. Recently, two other students died by suicide due to NEET pressure in the state.

Suicide helplines: Sneha Foundation: 91-44-24640050 (24 hours), AASRA: 91-22-27546669 (24 hours), Vandrevala Foundation for Mental Health: 1860-2662-345 and 1800-2333-330 (24 hours)

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