Ravi Shankar Prasad condemns Arnab Goswami arrest

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Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad called Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami’s arrest “seriously reprehensible, unwarranted and worrisome” on Wednesday. Mumbai Police arrested Goswami over allegations that he abetted the suicide of a 53-year-old interior designer, a police official said.

Prasad accused the Congress leadership of staying silent while Maharashtra’s Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party government allegedly suppressed press freedom. He said disagreement with a journalist cannot justify arrest through police power, and called the Congress position hypocritical. The allegations against Goswami and the police case were not independently detailed in the report.

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The loudest claims are already political: one side calls the arrest an attack on press freedom, while the other may treat it as proof that a prominent journalist is above scrutiny. Neither slogan settles an abetment case. The proper test is whether police followed due process, disclosed the evidence and allowed a fair judicial review, regardless of Goswami’s platform or the Maharashtra government’s political allies.

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