Mumbai: Mumbai Police on Tuesday arrested Maha Movie television channel’s CEO Sanjay Verma in an alleged copyright violation case, a police official said.
Updated Jan 18, 2021 | 09:12 IST
Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh had said that Republic TV and two Marathi channels Box Cinema and Fakt Marathi were involved in manipulating TRPs. Incriminiating WhatsApp chats between Arnab Goswami and former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta | Photo Credit: Times Now
Mumbai: The National Student Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress, has filed a complaint against Republic TV s Arnab Goswami in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur in connection with the leaked WhatsApp conversations between the Republic TV editor-in-chief and former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta.
The Opposition parties, including, Congress, Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party have raised their concern against the alleged WhatsAPP chats between Goswami and Dasgupta demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe.
The conversation is dated February 23, 2019, three days before the Balakot strikes (Representational)
New Delhi:
Amid outrage over leaked WhatsApp conversations of TV anchor Arnab Goswami, submitted by Mumbai Police to a court, the opposition has demanded an investigation into chats linked to the 2019 Balakot air strike in retaliation for the terror attack on a security convoy in Pulwama.
The transcripts are a part of the Mumbai Police charge-sheet on the ratings scam, in which Arnab Goswami s Republic TV and two other channels are accused of gaming TRPs or Television Rating Points by manipulating households metred for viewership.
The transcripts of chats between Arnab Goswami and Partho Dasgupta, the former CEO of ratings agency BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council), have the TV anchor saying three days before the Balakot strike that something big will happen . The chats reveal he said it would be bigger than a normal strike and the government is confident of striking
Updated Jan 18, 2021 · 09:41 am Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami. | Screenshot/Facebook
Pakistan on Sunday said the February 2019 Pulwama attack was a “false flag operation” staged by India’s Bharatiya Janata Party government to malign its neighbour’s image. Pakistan cited the purported WhatsApp chats of Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, which suggested that he had prior knowledge about the Balakot airstrikes.
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.