ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd. (company running Republic TV and R Bharat channels) has told the Bombay High Court that the investigation carried out by Mumbai Police in the TRP Scam case is guided by <i>unp</i>.
Arnab Goswami
MUMBAI: ARG Outlier Media, the company that runs all Republic TV channels, has told the Bombay High Court that the Mumbai police s charge sheet in the fake TRP scam did not disclose any evidence against Republic TV and its editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, who is an accused in the case.
In a rejoinder affidavit filed on Tuesday in the high court to counter the police s charge sheet, the company said the police had falsely implicated its employees in the case.
It said the entire case against its channels and employees arose out of an unparalleled political vendetta and a deeply malicious witch hunt .
The next hearing in the case is posted for 26 February 2021.
02 Feb, 2021 - 12:55 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
NEW DELHI: Hansa Research Group, which had filed a writ in the Bombay high court in early November 2020, complaining of police harassment in the TRP scam case, has now filed a rejoinder in the court to the reply filed by Mumbai police. Hansa has claimed that the reply by the Mumbai police “contains nothing but few denials and unsubstantiated, vague and superficial allegations.” The rejoinder further stated that the police allegation that Hansa is aiding and abetting ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd (Republic TV) is nothing but a figment of the imagination. Hansa “has no interest in any media channel” and the police cannot compel Hansa to “implicate or exonerate any channel.”
Hansa Research Group, the complainant in the Television Rating Points Scam (TRP Scam) has sought to transfer the investigation into the scam, from the Mumbai Police to the CBI, only after realising its nexus with the accused TV channels was being investigated, the Mumbai Police has said in an affidavit to the Bombay High Court.
Five of the 15 people arrested by the Mumbai Police in the TRP Scam are former employees of Hansa Research Group and two other former senior officers of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), the affidavit states. Hansa Research was hired to install Bar-o-meters in select households to gauge the viewing pattern of television programmes.
The demand was made only after its nexus with TV channels came to light.
29 Jan, 2021 - 01:35 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
NEW DELHI: Questioning the intent of Hansa Research Group approaching the Bombay HC demanding the probe into the TRP manipulation case should be handed over to the CBI, the Mumbai police told the court today that the transfer of investigation is being sought with ulterior motives.
In an affidavit filed before the high court, the Mumbai police said, “It is only when the investigation started to expose the nexus between the petitioner and the channel, the doors of this court were knocked to stall the on-going investigation.”