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MUMBAI: The Mumbai crime branch probing the TRP scam on Thursday arrested Partho Dasgupta, former CEO of BARC, from Rajgad police station’s jurisdiction in Pune rural.
Police said Dasgupta was the 15th accused to be arrested in the case. He will be brought to the crime branch and produced before the 37th metropolitan magistrate court in Mumbai on Friday.
Dasgupta’s name figured during investigations and interrogation of other accused in the case.
Police said that most of those arrested in the case were employees of Hansa Research Group Pvt Ltd who had misused confidential data which had been entrusted to them.
TRP scam: Former BARC chief executive officer Partho Dasgupta arrested
Dasgupta is the second person connected to BARC to be arrested in the case.
Partho Dasgupta, the former chief executive officer of BARC, has been arrested in the TRP scam,
Exchange4media reported. The report said that Dasgupta has been arrested from Rajgad Police Station jurisdiction in Pune Rural and is being brought to Crime Branch, Mumbai .
Dasgupta is the second person connected to BARC to be arrested in connection with the case. Last week, the police had arrested Romil Ramgarhia, the former chief operating officer of BARC.
According to the Mumbai police, some channels, including
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