The state Homes Minister said that the deceased interior designer's daughter told him that the case of non-payment of dues by Republic TV to her father was not investigated by Alibaug police and therefore he ordered re-investigation by CID.
The team of cyber experts with Mumbai Police has marked approximately 1.5 lakh Twitter accounts during the technical investigation, most of them were allegedly sharing 'defamatory content' against the Maha government.
Arnab Goswami challenged, "If I am indeed one of Mumbai's biggest hawala operators, and if I am, as Param Bir Singh claims, a hawala kingpin, he should place me under arrest immediately."
Sameet Thakkar was earlier arrested on October 24 in Nagpur for allegedly making 'objectionable' comments on Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son, Aaditya Thackeray.