ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd. (company running Republic TV and R Bharat channels) has told the Bombay High Court that the investigation carried out by Mumbai Police in the TRP Scam case is guided by <i>unp</i>.
Arnab Goswami
MUMBAI: ARG Outlier Media, the company that runs all Republic TV channels, has told the Bombay High Court that the Mumbai police s charge sheet in the fake TRP scam did not disclose any evidence against Republic TV and its editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, who is an accused in the case.
In a rejoinder affidavit filed on Tuesday in the high court to counter the police s charge sheet, the company said the police had falsely implicated its employees in the case.
It said the entire case against its channels and employees arose out of an unparalleled political vendetta and a deeply malicious witch hunt .
The hearing is now scheduled for 15 February.
10 Feb, 2021 - 12:31 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
NEW DELHI: Giving additional time to former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta to withdraw his bail application from the Supreme Court, the Bombay high court has adjourned the hearing on his bail plea to 15 February. Police claim Dasgupta is the so-called “mastermind” of the TRP manipulation racket which has thrown the news broadcast industry into tumult.
Special public prosecutor Shishir Hirey opposed Dasgupta s appeal for interim bail, stating that he has also filed a bail plea in the Supreme Court and this move is nothing but “forum shopping.
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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.
Bombay high court
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday adjourned to February 15 the hearing in a plea of bail filed by former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), Partho Dasgupta, accused in the alleged Television Rating Point (TRP) rigging case.
Dasgupta’s lawyers said that they would first seek withdrawal of his petition filed earlier before the Supreme Court. That petition was filed only on health grounds, and “not on merit of the case”, Shardul Singh, counsel for Dasgupta, informed the court.
Special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray submitted before Justice P D Naik that though informed at the last hearing on February 2 that Dasgupta was withdrawing the plea before the SC, it was still alive and pending. He read from an SC order dated February 4 passed by a bench of Justices N V Ramana, Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose. Hiray said Dasgupta was ‘forum shopping’, which the his counsel, Aabad Ponda and Singh, denied.