NEW DELHI: Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami has challenged the Bombay high court’s order dismissing his petition for interim bail in the 2018 abetment to suicide case in the Supreme Court. 

Goswami, who remains in 14-day judicial custody, was refused interim bail by the Bombay HC on Monday stating that no case was made out for the exercise of extraordinary jurisdiction by the high court under Article 226 of the Constitution when the petitioners have the alternate remedy of seeking regular bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 

"Rejection of interim application shall not be construed as an impediment to the petitioner seeking alternate remedies. Observations are prima facie in nature confined to the present application only," the bench said in its order yesterday.

The journalist has also filed a regular bail application in the Alibaug sessions court seeking his release from judicial custody.

Read our coverage of the 2018 abetment case  

Goswami and two others were arrested on 4 November in relation to abetment to a suicide case of an interior designer and his mother for non-repayment of dues by the accused.