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Mumbai: Arnab Goswami s Republic TV on Wednesday accused the Mumbai Police of twisting, distorting and selectively leaking the WhatsApp chat between him and Partho Dasgupta, the former chief of BARC.
The channel further claimed that the city police has only filed a voluminous chargesheet but has failed to bring on record a single incriminating material against the channel or its office bearers including Goswami, booked in the TRP scam case.
In an affidavit filed before a bench led by Justice Sambhaji Shinde, the ARG Outlier Media group claimed that the city police has leaked the chats and might have deleted some of them only to mislead the court and delay the hearing of their writ petition seeking to quash all the criminal proceedings in the TRP scam case.
India News: MUMBAI: Arnab Goswami of Republic TV, in a rejoinder to the Mumbai Police affidavit on his plea to quash the case against him in the alleged TRP manip.
The company has filed a rejoinder in response to Mumbai Police, stating that it 'contains nothing but few denials and unsubstantiated, vague and superficial allegations'
TRP case: Approver says ED forced him to change his police statement
TNN / Updated: Jan 30, 2021, 09:11 IST
TRP manipulation scam,
Umesh Mishra, has approached the Bombay HC, saying ED forced him to change his original statement to the
Mumbai police as an approver. The scam is being probed by the city police, while ED has registered a separate money laundering case in the matter.
Mishra has filed an intervention application in the petition filed by
Republic TV’s
Arnab Goswami seeking quashing of the police FIR. Mishra said he should be heard before any order is passed in the plea.
A former employee of Hansa Research, an agency that was monitoring TRPs, Mishra was arrested from Virar in October for allegedly being involved in making payments to households to keep certain TV channels on and thus inflate viewership numbers.
India News: MUMBAI: The demand for a CBI probe into the TRP manipulation scam is “obviously made for ulterior motives,” said a reply filed by the Maharashtra gove.