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Pronouncing its order, the Bombay High Court on Monday rejected the interim bail plea of Republic TV Managing Director and Chief Editor Arnab Goswami. The court has asked him to file a regular bail plea in the Alibaug court and directed that it should be decided on merits within four days. Goswami`s team has already filed its bail plea before the Alibaug court, a day after he was shifted from a school there to the Taloja Central Jail.

On Saturday, a division bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik after a day-long hearing in the pleas had reserved its order without granting any immediate relief.

Goswami and the two others were arrested by Alibaug police in Maharashtra's Raigad district on November 4 in connection with the suicide of architect-interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother in 2018 over alleged non-payment of dues by companies of the accused.

After his arrest from his Lower Parel residence in Mumbai, Goswami was taken to Alibaug, where the Chief Judicial Magistrate remanded him and the two others in judicial custody till November 18.

Goswami is currently kept at a local school which has been designated as a COVID-19 centre for the Alibaug prison.