mumbai shiv sena on thursday slammed bjp for supporting republic tv editorinchief arnab goswami and calling his arrest in a 2018 abetment to suicide case an emergencylike situation and an attack on the freedom of the press an editorial in its mouthpiece saamana said the fadnavis government had tried to cover up the case to protect goswami a man committed suicide along with his aged mother and his wife is demanding justice and the police is following the lawread alsoanway naik suicide case arnab goswami gave statement in mumbai says maharashtra ministermumbai the intervention of a senior cabinet member in the previous government made it possible for republic tvs editorinchief arnab goswami to record his statement in the suicide abetment case in mumbai instead of raigad said state home minister anil deshmukh goswamis statement in the casearnab goswami arrest maharashtra home dept set up 40member team to carry out operation arnabthe state home department led by ncps anil deshmukh drafted a highlevel 40member team led by kokan range inspector general sanjay mohite to arrest arnab goswami in the 2018 suicide abetment casehis goswamis arrest is not an assault on the fourth pillar ofdemocracy as described by home minister amit shah it said referring to attacks on the press in bjpruled states the editorial cited the example of a journalist in gujarat who was arrested for criticising the state government in up it said mediapersons have been killed nobody was told these incidents were reminders of the emergency state bjp leaders should demand justice for anvay naik who is a son of the soil the saamana said shah had tweeted on wednesday saying it reminds us of the emergency this attack on free press must be and will be opposed the editorial alsodescribed goswamis work as supari journalism adding that the bjp should stop grieving for a nautanki