Ex-BARC CEO Partho hospitalised, ...

The family claimed that Dasgupta was lying in the emergency room without a bedsheet and police stated that the family was not informed as they did not have their numbers. "This is in spite of the several emails we have sent to the jail authorities requesting permission to reach my father with my phone number mentioned at the end of the text. My father was moved to the ICU 16 hours after he was admitted in the hospital," wrote Pratyusha in the letter. On December 24, Mumbai police arrested Dasgupta over his alleged involvement in TRP racket, in the supplementary charge sheet Mumbai police called Dasgupta to be the mastermind of the scam and allegedly received huge kickbacks to manipulate Television Rating Points (TRP) to favour Republic TV. Following his arrest he was in police custody till December 31 after which he was sent to judicial custody to Taloja jail Navi Mumbai. Recently Mumbai court refused to grant him interim bail.