Former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta rigged the "entire" TRP system for news channels and also discussed issues of national security with "a certain owner cum news anchor" on Whatsapp, the Mumbai Police told the Bombay High Court on Monday.
Former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta rigged the entire TRP system for news channels and also discussed issues of national security with a certain owner cum news anchor on Whatsapp, the Mumbai Police told the Bombay High Court on Monday. Special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray told a single-judge bench presided over by Justice PD Naik that Dasgupta was directly involved in manipulating Television Rating Points (TRPs) with the help of other accused persons. Hiray, who was opposing Dasgupta s bail plea in the HC, said the crime branch of the Mumbai police had accessed, among other things, Dasgupta s WhatsApp chats with a certain owner and anchor of a TV channel where in he discussed manipulating the TRPs.
MUMBAI: Former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta rigged the entire TRP system for news channels and also discussed issues of national security with a certain owner cum news anchor on WhatsApp, the Mumbai Police told the Bombay High Court on Monday.
Special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray told a single-judge bench presided over by Justice PD Naik that Dasgupta was directly involved in manipulating Television Rating Points (TRPs) with the help of other accused persons.
Hiray, who was opposing Dasgupta s bail plea in the HC, said the crime branch of the Mumbai police had accessed, among other things, Dasgupta s WhatsApp chats with a certain owner and anchor of a TV channel where in he discussed manipulating the TRPs.
The court said the case appears to be more than just TRP manipulation
02 Feb, 2021 - 07:53 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
NEW DELHI: Rejecting the bail plea of former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta, the city civil & sessions court has said that he prima-facie appears to be the “mastermind” of the entire TRP scam. The session court also observed that Dasgupta might tamper with the evidence in the leaked WhatsApp messages with Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami, if he is granted bail.
The court held that the case appears to be more than just TRP manipulation while referring to Dasgupta s Whatsapp chat transcript. Justice MA Bhosale remarked, It appears from the papers put forth before me it is not the case of simple manipulation of TRP but more than that, however, before forming any opinion regarding WhatsApp chats I am of the opinion that a thorough investigation is required.
Updated Jan 19, 2021 · 09:14 am A file photo of Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami. | Sujit Jaiswal/AFP
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has said that the state Cabinet will on Tuesday discuss the purported WhatsApp conversation of Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in which sensitive information related to the Pulwama attack and the Balakot airstrikes was mentioned, reported PTI.
The WhatsApp chats between Goswami and Broadcast Audience Research Council’s former Chief Executive Officer Partho Dasgupta are part of the supplementary chargesheet that the Mumbai Police filed in the Television Rating Points scam case.
The conversation revealed that three days before the Indian Air Force carried out a strike targeting Jaish-e-Mohammad training camps in the Pakistani town of Balakot, Goswami had told Dasgupta that it would be “bigger than a normal strike”.