During Wednesday's late-night hearing, the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) of the Alibaug district court raised several questions on the arrest of TV news anchor Arnab Goswami which she called illegal, and the reopening of the two-year-old abetment of suicide case "without sufficient evidence". But, even the CJM's observations did not help the Republic TV owner's appeal for interim relief at the Bombay High Court on Thursday. 

The CJM also said that the police failed to provide sufficient evidence to seek custodial interrogation of Goswami. On the reopening of the 2018 abetment of suicide case, she said that no permission was taken from the court to reinvestigate the case, which the Raigad police had closed in the form of A summary in 2019.