Republic TV Sends Notice to Indian Express for Report on Arnab Goswami Bribing BARC CEO
Republic TV s notice said, You have acted as a judge, jury and executioner in breach of all journalistic ethics.
Arnab Goswami on Republic TV. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: The television channel Republic TV has sent a legal notice to
The Indian Express newspaper, in the aftermath of the latter’s report on channel head Arnab Goswami allegedly having paid BARC chief Partho Dasgupta $12,000 for two separate holidays and a total of Rs 40 lakh over three years.
Express had on January 25 reported that Dasgupta had made these claims in a handwritten note to Mumbai police. His lawyer Arjun Singh had said the note had been recorded âunder duressâ and had no “evidentiary value in the court of law.â
Partho Dasgupta s Statement Says Arnab Goswami Bribed Him, No Evidentiary Value Says Lawyer
The former BARC chief s handwritten statement to the Mumbai police says that Goswami paid him $12,000 and over Rs 40 lakh to rig viewership ratings of Republic TV.
Former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta. Photo: LinkedIn
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New Delhi: The former chief executive of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), Partho Dasgupta, has alleged in a handwritten statement to the Mumbai Police that Arnab Goswami bribed him to manipulate viewership ratings in favour of his channel Republic TV, according to an
BARC is responsible for measuring the television rating points (TRPs) of channels.
Opinion: What Nidhi Razdan phishing case and Arnab Goswami chats tell us about Indian media today
The media has become a marketing juggernaut, vulnerable to manipulation by influential players. Arnab Goswami and Nidhi Razdan. | Arnab Goswami (AFP), Nidhi Razdan (Scholars of LSR/Facebook)
Every few weeks it seems, something occurs to remind us of the ailing state of the Indian news media. The revelations about two prominent mediapersons last week was one such occasion. Former NDTV Executive Editor Nidhi Razdan admitted she had been the victim of a phishing attack that had her falsely believe she had been appointed Associate Professor at Harvard. While the injury was to her alone, Razdan’s vulnerability was seen by some people as arising from a culture of entitlement surrounding prominent journalists.
Updated Jan 19, 2021 · 09:14 am A file photo of Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami. | Sujit Jaiswal/AFP
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has said that the state Cabinet will on Tuesday discuss the purported WhatsApp conversation of Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in which sensitive information related to the Pulwama attack and the Balakot airstrikes was mentioned, reported PTI.
The WhatsApp chats between Goswami and Broadcast Audience Research Council’s former Chief Executive Officer Partho Dasgupta are part of the supplementary chargesheet that the Mumbai Police filed in the Television Rating Points scam case.
The conversation revealed that three days before the Indian Air Force carried out a strike targeting Jaish-e-Mohammad training camps in the Pakistani town of Balakot, Goswami had told Dasgupta that it would be “bigger than a normal strike”.
Arnab WhatsApp Chats: Imran Khan Says Modi Govt Used Balakot for Domestic Gains
The Republic TV founder hit back at the Pakistani government s statements, saying it was involved in a conspiracy against his channel.
Imran Khan and Arnab Goswami. Photos: PTI Illustration: The Wire
New Delhi: The Pakistan government and the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan made their way into the controversy over Arnab Goswami’s WhatsApp chats, saying the Republic TV founder’s conversations “show” that the Balakot airstrike was planned by the Narendra Modi government to win the 2019 general elections.
The Mumbai police have annexed chats between Goswami and former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta, which showed that Goswami was aware of the airstrike â which the Indian Air Force conducted as retaliation to the Pulwama terror attack in February 2019 â at least three days in advance.