Mumbai police on Monday told a local court that Partho Dasgupta, the arrested former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (Barc), in connivance with a colleague and Republic TV managing director Arnab Goswami, had manipulated the television rating points (TRP) of Republic TV.
“Dasgupta misused his official position and manipulated TRP of specific news channels broadcast by ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd such as Republic Bharat Hindi and Republic TV English,” the police said in its remand note submitted in a magistrate’s court.
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The note said Goswami had given “payment in lakhs” to Dasgupta from time to time.
The magistrate extended the police custody of Dasgupta till December 30.
Republic TV has denied any wrongdoing.
