TRP scam: Court rejects bail plea of BARC s ex-CEO Partho Dasgupta
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Last Updated: Jan 20, 2021, 05:42 PM IST
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Opposing Dasgupta s bail application in the sessions court, special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray submitted that although the charge-sheet in the case has been filed, there still are multiple things which need to be investigated.
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Partho Dasgupta, former CEO of BARC India, produced at Court in connection with Television Rating Points (TRP) scam.
Mumbai: A sessions court in Mumbai on Wednesday rejected the bail application of former CEO of ratings agency BARC, Partho Dasgupta, an accused in the alleged fake Television Ratings Point (TRP) case. Dasgupta was arrested by the Mumbai crime branch from Pune district last month.
India News: A sessions court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of former CEO of BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council), Partho Dasgupta, who was arrested on
Senior executives in media companies are miffed with the BARC board and its management for not disclosing the details of the forensic report with the subscribers, especially those who were impacted due to the alleged manipulation.
‘Suspend Republic TV’: NBA to Indian Broadcasting Foundation
The NBA said that the WhatsApp exchanges between Arnab Goswami and Patho Dasgupta establish clear collusion.
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The News Broadcasters Association on Monday, 18 January released a statement saying that the alleged WhatsApp exchanges between Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Patho Dasgupta establish clear collusion between the two in manipulating ratings.
As a result, the NBA has demanded Republic TV’s expulsion from the Indian Broadcasting Foundation.
The press release by the NBA notes that the manipulation of ratings was done “month after month by fraudulently manually reducing ratings of other channels to give Republic TV an unfair advantage.” It also expressed that it was shocked to see the messages exchanged between Goswami and Dasgupta.
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”.