Ex-CEO of Barc in ICU, daughter urges PM to save his life
Mumbai: Partho Dasgupta, a former CEO of TV ratings agency Barc who was arrested in the TRP rigging case, has been admitted to the ICU of a hospital after his sugar level shot up. His daughter took to Twitter to allege that he was tortured in prison, and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others to “save his life”. Mr Dasgupta was rushed to the Hospital from the Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai after his blood sugar levels shot up.
Mumbai, Jan.
16: Partho Dasgupta, the former CEO of TV ratings agency BARC, who was arrested in the television rating points (TRP) rigging case, has been admitted to the ICU of a hospital here after his sugar level shot up, officials said on Saturday.
His daughter took to Twitter to allege that he was tortured in prison and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others to “save his life.”
Dasgupta, a diabetic, was rushed to the staterun J.J. Hospital here from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai around midnight after his blood sugar level shot up, a prison official said. He was admitted to the ICU and was on oxygen support, the official said.
Dasgupta, the former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), was arrested in the alleged TRP rigging scam by the crime branch of the Mumbai police on December 24 last year.
A Mumbai court had, earlier this month, rejected his bail plea stating that he appeared to have played a vital role in the scam to rig TRP as per the police’s case.
The Mumbai police had earlier told the court that Republic TV editor-inchief Arnab Goswami had allegedly bribed Dasgupta with “lakhs of rupees” to ramp up the news channel’s viewership numbers fraudulently.
On Saturday, Pratyusha, Dasgupta’s daughter, tweeted a message titled “a helpless daughter’s anguished appeal” tagging PM Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, the PMO, as well as Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray.
Her mother received a call at around 3.00 am on Saturday informing that her father had been brought to the hospital in an unconscious state at around 1.00 pm on Friday, she said.