Goswami’s arrest on ‘karva chauth’: Naik’s widow hopes for justice

Raigad (Maharashtra), Nov 4 : Welcoming the arrest of Republic TV owner and Chief Editor Arnab Goswami, the family of the late architect Anvay Naik on Wednesday demanded to know why he (Goswami) was accorded “privileged treatment” by the police earlier.
Naik’s widow Akshata and daughter Adnya addressed the media after Goswami was nabbed from his Worli home and whisked off to Alibaug by a team of Mumbai and Raigad Police earlier.
The wife and daughter categorically denied that the late Naik had been made any payments from Goswami for constructing the TV channel’s studio and claimed that the entire probe was done shoddily by the earlier police team.
Goswami’s dramatic arrest came after the Maharashtra Police reopened the case of the double-suicide of an architect Anvay Naik, 53, and his mother Kumud Naik, in her 70s – both directors of Concorde Designs Pvt. Ltd.
The mother and son were found hanging at their Alibaug bungalow on May 5, 2018, leaving behind a suicide note, saying they resorted to the extreme step owing to unpaid dues from three companies, including Goswami’s Republic TV (Rs 83 lakh), Feroz Shaikh of IcastX/Skimedia (Rs 4 crore), and Niteish Sarda of Smartworks (Rs 55 lakh).
They said that after the suicide of Naik and his mother Kumud, the family had made pleas for help to many people including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mumbai Police, Cyber Cell, Crime Branch, Maharashtra Police, Thane Police, Raigad Police and others.