Updated Jan 18, 2021 | 13:51 IST
TRP Scam: Stunning chats reveal how former BARC chief Partho Dasgupta allegedly wanted to unleash troll army against Times Now. TRP Scam
New Delhi: In more incriminating evidence surfacing in the TRP Scam, the WhatsApp chats between ex-CEO of BARC Partho Dasgupta and ex-BARC COO, Romil Ramgarhia, revealed one of the many modus operandi used to suppress Times Now numbers.
More proof of sabotage has come out where strategies have been revealed to pull down numbers of the rival channels. Chats show how the tainted ex-BARC chief asked Romil Ramgarhia, ex-BARC COO, to unleash his troll army to suppress Times Now s Kolkata Numbers.
Updated Dec 28, 2020 | 18:18 IST
In the remand note, the Mumbai Police claimed that the ex-BARC CEO favoured Republic TV and that Times Now was the “victim” of the TRP scam. Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami | Photo Credit: IANS
Mumbai: In a fresh development in the TRP scandal case, the Mumbai Police has claimed that lakhs were paid by Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami to Parth Dasgupta, former CEO of the Broadcast Research Audience Council (BARC), to manipulate ratings.
In a remand note, the Mumbai Police claimed that the ex-BARC CEO favoured Republic TV and that Times Now was the “victim” of the TRP scam.
Express News Service
MUMBAI: Former CEO of the Broadcast Research Audience Council (BARC) Parth Dasgupta has allegedly told the Mumbai police that Republic TV owner and Editor Arnab Goswami bribed him lakhs of rupees and costly wristwatch to promote his channels.
The Mumbai police also recovered over three kilograms of silver from Parth Dasgupta house. Dasgupta, who was CEO of BARC between 2013 to 2019 period told Mumbai police that this three kg silver was also bought by money given to him by Arnab Goswami to promote his English TV channel Republic TV and Hindi Republic Bharat.
The crime branch of Mumbai Police on December 24 nabbed 55-year-old Dasgupta in Pune district when he was heading for Pune from Goa. Police said that it has been proven that Dasgupta was connived with Arnab Goswami to rig the TRP rating.