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MUMBAI: “Bigger than a normal strike.” That is what Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami told Partho Dasgupta, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Broadcast Audience Research Council , which measures television ratings, in a purported WhatsApp chat on February 23, 2019.
Three days later, 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.
KARACHI: Firebrand Indian television anchor Arnab Goswami knew of the Modi government’s plan to stage a strike in Pakistan days before the Feb 26, 2019, Balakot episode between the two countries, evidence submitted by the Mumbai police as part of an ongoing investigation into manipulation of television ratings suggests, multiple Indian media outlets reported on Saturday.
Police have included purported WhatsApp conversations between Goswami, chief editor of Republic TV, and Pratho Dasgupta the incarcerated head of ratings company Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) in a transcript that is part of a 3,400-page supplementary chargesheet filed in their investigation into the alleged ratings scam, said a Dawn.com report quoting The Hindu newspaper.
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Arnab Goswami has again been grabbing headlines after his WhatsApp chats were allegedly leaked online. Screenshots of chats between the Republic TV honcho and ex-BARC CEO, Partho Dasgupta have gone viral. It has been alleged that Goswami and Dasgupta were together involved in a TRP scam.
Dasgupta allegedly had directed BARC executives to change the ratings favouring Arnab Goswami s – Republic Bharat and Republic TV. In exchange, Arnab has allegedly shared many big political developments, shuffles, changes to the former BARC chief.
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Apart from Goswami and Dasgupta, the allege leaked chats also show a conversation between BARC s former chief operating officer Romil Ramgarhia and Republic TV CEO Vikas Khanchandani. Apart from allegedly sharing the highest level of data with the Republic, the chat shows how policies were altered to make sure the Republic appears to be on top.
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On 11 January, the Mumbai Police filed a supplementary chargesheet in the TRP scam case, which includes conversations between Partho Dasgupta, the former CEO of BARC, and Arnab Goswami, the editor-in-chief of Republic TV.
On 11 January, the Mumbai Police filed a supplementary chargesheet in the TRP scam case, which includes conversations between Partho Dasgupta, the former CEO of BARC, and Arnab Goswami, the editor-in-chief of Republic TV.
On 11 January, the Mumbai Police filed a supplementary chargesheet in a case investigating the alleged manipulation of television rating points by several media organisations, most notable among which was Republic TV. Four days later, two volumes of the TRP-scam chargesheetâwhich runs into 3,400 pagesâwere leaked to the press. These documents contain WhatsApp conversations between Partho Dasputa, the former CEO of BARC, and several of his colleagues, and also with the co-founder, editor-in-chief and anchor of Republi
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Three days before the Balakot airstrike, Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami allegedly told Partho Dasgupta, former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) that something major will be done this time , showing that he was privy to the plans of the Air Force s action, several media reports have said.
According to the alleged transcript of WhatsApp chat between Goswami and Dasgupta, which is part of the supplementary charge sheet filed by Mumbai Police before a court in the TRP scam case, Goswami on February 23, 2019 allegedly said that the Central government was planning to carry out a bigger than normal strike .