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Mumbai:
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Broadcast Audience Research Council s (BARC) former CEO Partho Dasgupta, an accused in the alleged Television Rating points (TRP) rigging scam.
Justice P D Naik granted bail to Mr Dasgupta, 55, on a personal bond of Rs 2 lakh and two solvent sureties of the same amount. The bail plea is allowed. The applicant (Dasgupta) shall be released on bail after furnishing a personal bond of Rs 2 lakh and two sureties of the same amount, the High Court said.
The court allowed him to furnish a temporary cash surety of the same amount for a period of six weeks, until which he would have to submit the solvent sureties.
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MUMBAI: Sherlyn Chopra a director of two UK-based companies and an “actor and content creator” has approached the Bombay high court for an anticipatory bail against an FIR lodged by Cyber Cell of Mumbai Police against her in connection with a case of alleged uploading of obscene videos on free-to-view websites on the internet.
The 38-year-old moved HC on February 15, after the sessions court on February 8 rejected her pre-arrest bail application.
She claimed, through her advocate Charanjeet Chanderpal, that she has been a victim and somebody committed theft and uploading the videos without her permission.
One of the two companies makes paid adult content , her application said and added, “the infringers who have stolen these contents from the companies provided them freely.”
A report was submitted by prison authorities following directions earlier this month from HC, which is hearing a plea filed by Mukerjea seeking bail on medical grounds.