Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking interim bail in the 2018 case of alleged abetment to suicide of an interior designer, news agency PTI said.
The Bombay High Court had refused to grant interim bail to Goswami and two others on Monday and asked them to move to the local court for the relief, it said.
The appeal against the high court order has been filed in the top court through lawyer Nirnimesh Dubey, it said.
The state government, through advocate Sachin Patil, has also filed a caveat in the top court to ensure that no order is passed on Goswami's plea without it being heard in the case.
Meanwhile, the hearing on Goswami's bail plea is also scheduled to be heard in the trial court during the day, the report added.
The high court, while rejecting the interim bail pleas of Goswami and the two other accused Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda, had said, "no case has been made out for us (court) to exercise our extraordinary jurisdiction".
"The petitioners have the efficacious remedy of seeking bail before the sessions court concerned. We have already noted earlier that if such bail plea is filed, then the sessions court shall decide the same in four days," it said on Monday.
Goswami, Shaikh and Sarda had last week filed petitions in the high court challenging their "illegal arrest" in the case and seeking interim bail.
