Updated Jan 18, 2021 | 19:21 IST
The WhatsApp chats are a part of the supplementary charge sheet filed by the Mumbai Police in this case. Anil Deshmukh | Photo Credit: ANI
Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh will be chairing a high-level meeting on Tuesday to decide upon the next course of action in the Arnab Chat Gate. The state government is also looking into how Goswami got access to sensitive information such as on matters pertaining to Balakot airstrikes in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack. We are gathering information about the leaked chats between Arnab Goswami and Partho Dasgupta. Some highly sensitive things including the Balakot airstrike & the Pulwama attack have been mentioned in the chats, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said, news agency ANI reported.
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Did Arnab Goswami have prior information about Balakot strike?
India
Updated: Monday, January 18, 2021, 9:27 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 17: Opposition has demanded a high-level probe into the purported WhatsApp chat between Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami and former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta in which the former is alleged to have told the incarcerated executive that India would strike at Pakistan three days before the actual airstrike.
Arnab Goswami If what a section of Media is reporting is correct then it points towards a direct linkage between Balakot airstrikes and 2019 General elections. Was National Security milked for electoral purposes? Needs a JPC investigation, MP Manish Tiwari wrote on Twitter.