Mumbai: Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami is not taking the name of the problems. Former CEO of Bark India, Partho Dasgupta, in his written statement to Mumbai Police, has made many surprising claims. One of which is the claim that Arnab Goswami gave about 40 lakh rupees to TRP Renting in favor of the channel. BARC is a short form of Broadcast Audience Research Council and BARC works to issue TRPs of all language channels. If you remember, after the TRP scam surfaced, BARC had decided that it would not do TRP renting of news channels for three months. There were also meetings for this.
40 lakh rupees received from Arnab Goswami
According to a written statement by Partho Dasgupta to the police, Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami gave him US $ 12,000 to go out with the family. Apart from this, during the three years, 40 lakh rupees were received for renting in favor of the channel. Explain that this information related to TRP tampering has been obtained through the supplementary charge sheet.
Chargesheet filed of 3600 pages
The Mumbai Police had filed a 3600-page supplementary charge sheet in the case related to the TRP scam on 11 January. Which includes a forensic audit report of BARC, the Partho Dasgupta and Arnab Goswami chat leaked case as well as statements from 59 people including former BARC employees.
According to media reports, the Mumbai Police had filed the first charge sheet against 12 people in November 2020 in connection with the TRP scam. According to the second charge sheet, the statement of Partho Dasgupta in the Crime Intelligence Unit’s office was recorded on 27 December 2020.
According to media reports, Partho Dasgupta’s statement has said to know Arnab Goswami since the year 2004. It was a period when the two worked together in Times Now. According to the statement, I (Partho Das Gupta) joined BARC as CEO in 2013 and Arnab launched Republic TV in 2017. Arnab had told about the plan of launching the channel and also said to help in renting. Apart from this, he said in the statement that he will get 6-6 thousand rupees for going with family and 20 lakh rupees in three years for tampering with TRP, then 10-10 lakh rupees.
At the same time, the lawyer of Partho Das Gupta, in a conversation with the English news website The Indian Express, said that the statement was denied and that under pressure.
