New Delhi, India (CNN) One of India's most well-known and controversial news anchors has been arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of an architect, local police said, in a case that reflects the country's increasingly fraught and politicized media environment. Ashok Dudhe, superintendent of police of Raigad district in the western state of Maharashtra, confirmed that Goswami was arrested for allegedly abetting a suicide, a crime that under the Indian penal code carries a possible 10 year prison sentence in India. Anvay Naik's wife Akshata Naik and daughter Adnya Naik address media during a press conference after Arnab Goswami's arrest on November 4, 2020 in Mumbai, India. In a video posted online in May and shared widely by Indian social media users, Naik's wife Akshata Naik alleged that Goswami aided Naik's suicide by failing to pay Naik for designing his television studio. Naik's suicide note -- which CNN has independently verified with Naik's daughter -- claimed that Goswami and two other people owed him $726,000.

Source: CNN November 06, 2020 01:18 UTC