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“We condemn the attack on press freedom in #Maharashtra. This is not the way to treat the Press. This reminds us of the emergency days when the press was treated like this,” Prakash Javadekar tweeted.

Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami was arrested today in a two-year-old suicide case in which investigations were reopened recently, the Mumbai police said. Several Union Ministers are among those who have condemned the arrest as an attack on press freedom, with Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar calling it a reminder of the Emergency.

“We censure the assault on press opportunity in Maharashtra. This isn’t the best approach to treat the Press. This helps us to remember the crisis days when the press was dealt with like this,” Prakash Javadekar tweeted as reports rose of Arnab Goswami’s capture.

Mr Goswami asserted he was mauled and attacked by the police at his Mumbai home prior to being driven into their van.

News office ANI cited him as saying that Mumbai Police “truly attacked his relative and father-in-law, child and spouse”. In recordings circulated by Republic TV, police officers were considered holding to be as they were endeavoring to remove him.

The Republic Editor-in-Chief has been captured for supposedly abetting the self destruction of a 53-year-old inside fashioner, Anvay Naik, and his mom, in 2018.

The architect had apparently named Arnab Goswami in a self destruction note and had blamed Republic TV for not satisfying him his obligations.

In May, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had declared that the self destruction was being reinvestigated after a new grievance by Adnya Naik, his little girl. Mr Deshmukh had guaranteed that Adnya accepted the Alibaug police had not examined Republic’s part in the non-installment of levy, which, she asserted, drove her dad and grandma to self destruction in May 2018.

The capture comes in Mr Goswami’s line with the Mumbai Police over its examinations concerning an appraisals trick and claims that Republic TV is among three stations associated with controlling TRPs or Television Rating Points by paying off family units metred for viewership. The manager had blamed the police for pestering his partners and seeking after a feud over his channel’s analysis of Mumbai Police’s treatment of the Sushant Singh Rajput case.

Maharashtra’s decision Shiv Sena denied any plan behind the capture. “The law is continued in Maharashtra. Police can make a move in the event that they have proof against anybody. Since the arrangement of the Uddhav Thackeray government, no move has been made against anybody for retribution,” said senior Sena pioneer Sanjay Raut.

The early morning capture energized a downpour of posts via online media, with individuals from the decision BJP asserting “despotism” by Maharashtra’s Shiv Sena-drove alliance.

“Shades of the Emergency! The capture of Arnab Goswami is an assault on the opportunity of press. The individuals who truly have confidence in this opportunity must make some noise!” – tweeted Foreign Minister S Jaishankar.

Mr Goswami was taken to Alibaug after his capture, the police said.

The Editors’ Guild of India communicated stun. “We denounce the unexpected capture and discover it very troubling. The organization calls upon Maharashtra to guarantee that Goswami is dealt with decently and state power isn’t utilized against basic announcing by the media,” the top media body said in an assertion.