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Home | India | Trp Scam Hc Grants Bail To Barcs Ex Ceo Partho Dasgupta

TRP scam: HC grants bail to BARC’s ex-CEO Partho Dasgupta

Dasgupta is accused of having misused his official position and conniving with ARG Outlier Media, the company which runs all Republic TV channels.

By PTI
Published Date - 01:16 PM, Tue - 2 March 21
TRP scam: HC grants bail to BARC’s ex-CEO Partho Dasgupta
File Photo: Former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Broadcast Audience Research Council’s (BARC) former CEO Partho Dasgupta, an accused in the alleged Television Rating points (TRP) rigging scam.

Justice P D Naik granted bail to Dasgupta (55) on a personal bond of Rs 2 lakh and two solvent sureties of the same amount.

“The bail plea is allowed. The applicant (Dasgupta) shall be released on bail after furnishing a personal bond of Rs 2 lakh and two sureties of the same amount,” the HC said.

The court allowed him to furnish a temporary cash surety of the same amount for a period of six weeks, until which he would have to submit the solvent sureties.

The permission was given after Dasgupta’s counsel Aabad Ponda told the court that the process of preparing and submitting the solvent sureties will take time.

The court directed Dasgupta to surrender his passport to the police station concerned and not leave India without permission of the trial court.

“The applicant shall attend the police station concerned on the first Saturday of each month for a period of six months. After that, he shall appear once in three months,” it said.

The court directed Dasgupta to attend the case trial as and when required and not tamper with evidence or witnesses in the case.

Dasgupta approached the HC in January this year after a sessions court rejected his bail plea while noting that he had played a vital role in the scam and was its alleged “mastermind”.

He was arrested on December 24 last year and is in jail since then.

Dasgupta is accused of having misused his official position and conniving with ARG Outlier Media, the company which runs all Republic TV channels, and with Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, to manipulate TRPs.

The Republic TV has denied any wrongdoing.

The Mumbai police while opposing Dasgupta’s bail plea had said he played a direct role in the manipulation of TRPs for TV news channels.

The police had relied on Dasgupta’s chats with Goswami where they discussed manipulation of TRPs.

Dasgupta’s counsel Ponda earlier urged the HC to grant him bail, saying the police had already filed their charge sheet in the case and his custodial interrogation was not required any more.

Ponda had also told the HC that Dasgupta’s WhatsApp chats, including his chats with co-accused Goswami, were merely “lose talks”.

On January 16, Dasgupta was rushed to the state-run J J Hospital here from the Taloja prison in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, after his blood sugar levels went up and he fell unconscious.

He was admitted to the ICU of the J J Hospital and was discharged on January 22.

Following his discharge, his lawyers had moved the HC seeking an urgent hearing of his bail plea.

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