Updated Jan 16, 2021 · 07:31 pm In this photograph taken on April 26, 2017, journalist Arnab Goswami poses during an interview with AFP in Mumbai. | Sujit Jaiswal/ AFP
“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.
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Dasgupta, a diabetic, was rushed to the hospital from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday LinkedIn Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-16T15:00:10+05:30 TRP Scam: Daughter Cries Torture As Ex-CEO Of BARC Admitted To JJ Hospital outlookindia.com 2021-01-16T21:08:25+05:30
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He was arrested in the alleged fake Television Ratings Point (TRP) case,
His daughter took to Twitter to allege that he was tortured in prison, and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others to save his life .
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The Mumbai police have annexed alleged conversations between the Republic TV founder and former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta in a supplementary chargesheet. The discussions also reveal Goswami has connections in high places and was aware of many key Central government decisions.
Former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta, Arnab Goswami and the logo of BARC. Illustration: The Wire
Media16/Jan/2021
Mumbai: In the ongoing investigation into the alleged manipulation of television rating points (TRP), the Mumbai police has submitted damning messages that were allegedly exchanged between Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami and Partho Dasgupta, the former chief executive officer (CEO) of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) discussing ways to âmanipulateâ the ratings.
Fake TRP case: Won t take coercive action against Arnab Goswami till 29 Jan, Mumbai Police tells Bombay HC ARG Media had filed several pleas and interim applications in the HC urging the court to transfer the probe in the case to CBI, stay any further investigation in the case, and to restrain the police from taking any coercive action File image of Arnab Goswami. News18
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police told the Bombay High Court on Friday that it will not take any coercive action till 29 January against
Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and other employees of ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd in the alleged fake TRP scam case.
ARG media had approached the HC last year seeking, among other things, that the police be restrained from taking coercive action against its employees.