Republic TV And Arnab Goswami's Plea Against Mumbai Police's FIR In TRP Scam: Live Updates From Bombay High Court [Day 2]

Hirey - Absolutely

Hirey says that he may not be there

J Shinde - Whoever is there for the State, WE WANT TO KNOW....

Adjourned to 11am tomorrow 

J Pitale - Today there is suspicion in everything

J Shinde - The role of the PP is to assist the court

Mundargi- When we started practice that there were no reasons given to grant bail, only when it was rejected reasons were required. But now times have changed.

Mundargi- They are never going to make a statement that we don't want to continue

J Shinde - The SC has ruled that the powers of the HC u/s 482 are so inherent that they don't rely on the Code.

J Shinde - We are required to give reasons even for ad-interim reliefs.

Court says it has certain things in its mind but doesn't want to disclose it, till the Mumbai Police makes a statement. 

J Shinde - We are hearing 100s of matters every day.

If we are not getting timely answers, we are not able to proceed. Our time from the view-point of the litigants is very important.

SPP - Senior is going to argue

J Shinde - We had indicated earlier itself we will be hearing the matter. You need to respond to our queries.

Mundargi- They can't play hot and cold at the same time. If they want to continue to investigate please grant protection.

J Shinde asks Hirey if he is going to argue 

Mundargi- My thing is why keep us in the dark? If there is material against us. They can't keep investigating.

J Shinde asks Mumdargi, how many more witness statements are recorded?

J Pitale observes that there has been extensive investigation