Former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta Arrested in TRP Scam
Partho Dasgupta is the 15th person to be arrested in the case related to alleged rigging of television rating points by some TV channels.
Former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta. Photo: LinkedIn
Media24/Dec/2020
Mumbai: The crime branch of Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested a former CEO of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) from Pune district in the fake TRP scam, an official said.
Partho Dasgupta, the accused, is the 15th person to be arrested in the case related to alleged rigging of television rating points (TRP) by some TV channels.
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MUMBAI: The Mumbai crime branch probing the TRP scam on Thursday arrested Partho Dasgupta, former CEO of BARC, from Rajgad police station’s jurisdiction in Pune rural.
Police said Dasgupta was the 15th accused to be arrested in the case. He will be brought to the crime branch and produced before the 37th metropolitan magistrate court in Mumbai on Friday.
Dasgupta’s name figured during investigations and interrogation of other accused in the case.
Police said that most of those arrested in the case were employees of Hansa Research Group Pvt Ltd who had misused confidential data which had been entrusted to them.
Mumbai:
Partho Dasgupta, former Chief Operating Officer of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has been arrested in connection with the alleged
TRP scam.
Dasgupta was arrested by
the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) from
Rajgad Police Station in Pune district.He will be produced before the court on December 25, 2020.
This is the 15th arrest in the case related to alleged rigging of Television Rating Points (TRP) by some TV channels, after former BARC India COO Romil Ramgarhia was released today.
Earlier in October, the police claimed to have busted the TRP manipulation racket after the research company, Hansa, which installs and maintains the barometers in the city on behalf of BARC, lodged a complaint that some of its former employees had compromised data. The former employees shared the data with certain TV channels, who paid the selected households to watch their channels and boost their ratings.
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Dasgupta was arrested from Pune. He will be produced before the court for custody on Friday. (Twitter@parthodasgupta)
THE MUMBAI police crime branch on Thursday arrested Partho Dasgupta, the former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), from Pune, taking the total arrests in the TRP case to 15. This comes days after the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) of the crime branch arrested Ramil Ramgarhia, the former COO of BARC.