TRP scam: Ex-CEO Partho Dasgupta of BARC hospitalised
Dasgupta, a diabetic, was rushed to the hospital from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday after his blood sugar levels went up on Friday midnight. PTI January 16, 2021 / 04:32 PM IST
Former CEO of ratings agency BARC, Partho Dasgupta, who was arrested in the alleged fake Television Ratings Point (TRP) case, has been admitted in the ICU of state-run JJ hospital in central Mumbai, an official said on Saturday.
Dasgupta, a diabetic, was rushed to the hospital from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday after his blood sugar levels went up on Friday midnight.
Updated Jan 16, 2021 · 07:31 pm In this photograph taken on April 26, 2017, journalist Arnab Goswami poses during an interview with AFP in Mumbai. | Sujit Jaiswal/ AFP
“Bigger than a normal strike.”
That is what Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami told Partho Dasgupta, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Broadcast Audience Research Council , which measures television ratings, in a purported WhatsApp chat on February 23, 2019.
Three days later, on February 26, 2019, the Indian Air Force carried out a strike targeting a Jaish-e-Mohammad training camp in the Pakistani town of Balakot. The attack was billed as India’s response to an attack on February 14, 2019, in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed after an explosive-laden car driven by a suicide bomber rammed into their bus.
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Arnab Goswami is back in the news and this time as well, he is not the one reading the headlines, but making it. Last year was a rollercoaster for Arnab and looks like, this year too, it is going to be the same. After the TRP scam, Arnab is now caught up in problems with the leaked WhatsApp chats. On Jan 15, hearing of the TRP scam case took place in the Bombay High Court. The
TRP Scam: Daughter Cries Torture As Ex-CEO Of BARC Admitted To JJ Hospital
Dasgupta, a diabetic, was rushed to the hospital from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday LinkedIn Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-16T15:00:10+05:30 TRP Scam: Daughter Cries Torture As Ex-CEO Of BARC Admitted To JJ Hospital outlookindia.com 2021-01-16T21:08:25+05:30
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He was arrested in the alleged fake Television Ratings Point (TRP) case,
His daughter took to Twitter to allege that he was tortured in prison, and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others to save his life .