On Friday night, Former CEO of BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council) Partho Dasgupta, who is accused in the alleged Television Ratings Point (TRP) scam, was admitted to the ICU ward of JJ hospital in Mumbai. The police said he had not taken his diabetes medicine which resulted in a spike in his sugar level. He is stable now, the police added.
Dasgupta was arrested last month in the alleged TRP case following the arrest of BARC’s COO, Romil Ramagarhia, with allegations that the two were part of a coterie at BARC that had manipulated TRPs to show Republic TV as the top channel in television rankings.
On January 4, a Metropolitan magistrate court had rejected Dasgupta’s bail application. Seeking his bail, Dasgupta’s lawyers had submitted that it was not possible that he could have carried out the alleged manipulation, given that there were systems in place including the board of directors and internal committees at BARC. Police, however, opposed the plea stating that he was one of BARC’s top officials and the investigation was ongoing.
Dasgupta’s association with Arnab Goswami goes back to the time when both worked at Times Now.
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