MUMBAI: Former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta rigged the entire TRP system for news channels and also discussed issues of national security with a certain owner cum news anchor on WhatsApp, the Mumbai Police told the Bombay High Court on Monday.
Special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray told a single-judge bench presided over by Justice PD Naik that Dasgupta was directly involved in manipulating Television Rating Points (TRPs) with the help of other accused persons.
Hiray, who was opposing Dasgupta s bail plea in the HC, said the crime branch of the Mumbai police had accessed, among other things, Dasgupta s WhatsApp chats with a certain owner and anchor of a TV channel where in he discussed manipulating the TRPs.
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Niraj Sharma after its editorial team contacted Republic TV’s Chief Executive Officer Vikas Khanchandani on Thursday for a comment on the planned news report.
Republic TV’s legal notice said the report was false and “part of a mala fide, vicious, vexatious and deliberate campaign” to tarnish the reputation of the channel and its executives, the website said. The notice threatened “the strongest legal action” against