MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday adjourned to February 15 the hearing in a plea of bail filed by former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC),
Partho Dasgupta
, accused in the alleged Television Rating Point (TRP) rigging case.
Dasgupta’s lawyers said that they would
first seek
withdrawal of his petition filed earlier before the Supreme Court. That petition was filed only on health grounds, and “not on merit of the case”, Shardul Singh, counsel for Dasgupta, informed the court.
Special public prosecutor Shishir
Hiray
submitted before Justice P D Naik that though informed at the last hearing —on February 2—that Dasgupta was withdrawing the plea before the SC, it was still alive and pending. He read from an SC order dated February 4 passed by a bench of Justices N V Ramana, Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose. Hiray said Dasgupta was ‘forum shopping’, which the his counsel, Aabad Ponda and Singh, denied.
Dasputa is accused of misusing his
official position
and and conniving with ARG Outlier Media and Arnab Goswami to manipulate Republic TV’s TRPs.
Swati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, w...
Read MoreSwati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, where she has been covering courts for over a decade. She is passionate about law and works towards enlightening people about their statutory, legal and fundamental rights. She makes it her job to decipher for the public the truth, be it in an intricate civil dispute or in a gruesome criminal case.
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