‘’Since 2017 and especially after the launch of Republic TV in May 2017, BCCL/ Times Network suspected large scale manipulation of ratings pertaining to illegal usage of multiple LCNs and out of EPG placement by Republic TV. We also found significant abnormalities in market wise ratings of that channel clearly indicating ground level tampering and/ or deliberate intervention at the raw data level to favour them. Times Network repeatedly complained about these irregularities to BARC for almost two years but got no resolution as the complaints routinely resulted in stock replies,” TN said. The press statement of Joint Commissioner (Crimes) of Mumbai Police on December 25 last year as part of the ongoing investigation into the BARC TRP scam, made it clear that proof had been unearthed exposing manipulation by BARC officials for the benefit of Republic TV in 2017/18, the network said. As per BARC’s forensic audit of July 2020, as well as the multiple emails and WhatsApp chats
Ex-CEO of BARC Partho Dasgupta. File
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The Bombay High Court on Friday heard the bail plea filed by Partho Dasgupta, former chief executive officer and managing director of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), an accused in the Television Rating Point manipulation case.
The matter will be heard on January 25.
He was arrested from Pune on December 24, 2020, and is currently lodged at the Taloja Central Jail. On January 20, the City Civil and Sessions Court had rejected his bail and on January 4, the additional chief metropolitan magistrate had rejected his bail.
Before the sessions court, special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray opposed his bail on the grounds that WhatsApp chats had been leaked in which there were conversations between him and the Prime Minister s Office, which showed that he was an influential person and could tamper with evidence and sway witnesses who were either former or current employees of BARC.
Dasgupta was discharged this evening, after which his lawyers moved HC seeking an urgent hearing. He was discharged from JJ Hospital on a stretcher. If he was fit enough to be discharged, then he should have been walking out and not been carried out on a stretcher, said Dasgupta s counsel Arjun Singh Thakur.
The state s counsel, Deepak Thakare, told HC that as per protocol, since the JJ hospital had certified Dasgupta to be fit for discharge, he will be taken to the Taloja prison hospital.
If he is certified as fit, he will be shifted to his prison cell, or else, he will be taken back to JJ hospital, Thakare said.
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Mumbai Congress to lead a protest march against Arnab Goswami today
Mumbai Congress to lead a protest march against Arnab Goswami today
Mirror Online / Updated: Jan 22, 2021, 17:40 IST
Mumbai: Mumbai Congress is all set to protest against Republic TV Editor-In-Chief Arnab Goswami in connection to his WhatsApp chat leak with former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta regarding the Balakot airstrike.
The protest will be led by Mumbai Congress President Bhai Jagtap. Other Congress ministers, MLAs, MPs, corporators, district presidents and office bearers will also be attending the protest march.
On Thursday, Shiv Sena asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to take action against Republic TV chief Arnab Goswami over his purported chats with former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta in connection to the Balakot airstrike.