Fake TRP Scam: Wife of former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta information grievance with NHRC over torture of her husband in jail

A day after former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta was admitted to JJ Hospital by Taloja jail officers presumably in a really important situation, the spouse of Dasgupta has registered a grievance with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) alleging custodial torture towards her husband by the Maharashtra police to falsely implicate Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami.
In a letter to NHRC, Samrajni Dasgupta, spouse of Partho Dasgupta, has talked about that her husband was admitted to JJ Hospital by Taloja officers presumably and is in a really important situation. She mentioned that Dasgupta was dropped at the hospital at 1 pm on January 15 with a excessive blood sugar situation, in an unconscious state unable to reply to voice instructions.
“It was only after he regained consciousness that could he share my number with the attending Navi Mumbai police officer. I was informed at 3.20 am on 16th January about his critical condition. When we reached the hospital, we found him critical in the emergency ward. He was without any pillow or sheet either on the bed or to cover him. He told us that he has not been given anything to eat since Jan 15th. All he could tell us was that he was mercilessly beaten up even in Taloja Jail,” Samrajni Dasgupta narrated.
The spouse of the previous BARC CEO additionally alleged that somebody was paid to beat her husband in jail to falsely admit that he had taken cash from Republic TV within the TRP rip-off case. In her letter, Samrajni mentioned that Partho has been mentally harassed all lately on the Taloja Jail as properly.
“He was shifted to the ICU only at 6.30/7 am. Since then we have not been able to see him or talk to him. The doctors at JJ refused to share any report of the tests conducted and medication given,” Samrajni narrated her ordeal within the letter.
Accusing the Maharashtra authorities of torturing her husband, Samrajni Dasgupta in her grievance has said that the therapy meted out to her husband was violative of his basic proper as he deserves correct therapy. Secondly, she said that the household must be informed what therapy is been given
“My daughter has been constantly sending emails to the Taloja Jail requesting a call with her father, which is a right the accused has as per rules of the Jail, in which she has always shared her phone number. Even at 6 pm on 15th January, when she sent an email to the Jail, we were not informed of his condition. Why is his family being kept in the dark despite the authorities having ALL access to the family?” she requested.
Concluding her letter, Samrajni Dasgupta requested why are they being harassed regardless of cooperating at each step from the very starting. We haven’t objected to the authorized no matter steps it deems match, so why is his basic proper being denied. We need Partho protected. He shouldn’t be harmed and made to offer a false assertion to fulfill individuals’s vested pursuits, she wrote in a grievance letter to NHRC.
Mumbai Police and its metropolis crime department had arrested Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC)’s former CEO Partho Dasgupta on the twenty fifth of December 2020 in reference to the pretend TRP rip-off. It is being alleged that the previous BARC CEO has been allegedly tortured to offer false statements towards Arnab Goswami to implicate him within the case.
Daughter author a letter to Prime Minister looking for his intervention to save lots of her father’s life
Earlier, Pratyusha Dasgupta, the daughter of former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta, had appealed to Prime Minister Modi to save lots of her father’s life. She mentioned that Mr. Dasgupta was admitted to the hospital on the fifteenth of January in an unconscious state. He is at the moment in judicial custody over the TRP rip-off. She mentioned that she received a name at 3:00 AM and instantly, they rushed to JJ Hospital.
Pratyusha and her mom discovered Mr. Dasgupta mendacity within the emergency room with not even a bed-sheet masking him. There, he was incoherent and unable to precise himself correctly. His blood sugar ranges had shot to alarming ranges, 516 to be exact, she mentioned. She provides that Mr. Dasgupta suffers “from a number of serious ailments for many years, including diabetes, hypertension, and ankylosing spondylitis, an autoimmune disorder.”
She concludes her message to Prime Minister Modi saying, “My plea to you, sir, is to please save my father’s life by allowing proper medical treatment in a reputed hospital at our expense. Without intervention at the highest levels, I am now fearful for his life.”
OpIndia reached out to the household of Mr. Partho Dasgupta to grasp what actually occurred and the extent of the alleged bodily and psychological torture suffered by Mr. Patho Dasgupta.
Alarmingly, OpIndia was informed by the household that Mr. Dasgupta was in a important situation for the reason that afternoon of fifteenth January 2021 and was taken to JJ Hospital. However, the Taloja Jail officers didn’t give any details about him to the Navi Mumbai Police and therefore, the household was not contacted about his situation for nearly 15 hours. Afternoon, when Mr. Dasgupta was taken to JJ Hospital, a bail listening to was underway on the classes court docket the place his daughter and spouse each have been current.
Speaking to OpIndia, Pratyusha questioned why the authorities didn’t inform the household for therefore lengthy whereas Dasgupta was unconscious within the hospital. She suspects that the authorities hid details about his important well being on the time as a result of his well being situation can be a sound floor for bail and the police didn’t need the data to be revealed in the course of the listening to itself.
Breaking down, Pratyusha narrated the abysmal situation wherein her father was discovered. She mentioned that after they lastly reached the hospital within the wee hours of the morning on the sixteenth, her father had no blanket over him and was semi-conscious. Further, he didn’t also have a pillow solely making worse his spondylitis concern.
She mentioned that whereas within the hospital, the employees requested them why they didn’t attain the hospital earlier, since he was admitted in important situation, along with his sugar stage over 500, within the afternoon on fifteenth itself. On being requested, the authorities mentioned that they might not get in contact with the household since they didn’t have their contact numbers.
Family of ex-BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta file petition in Bombay High Court
Samrajni Dasgupta has now filed a petition within the Bombay High Court detailing the psychological and bodily torture being suffered by Partho and his important well being situation.
In the affidavit, she says that when she reached the hospital, there was “blood all over the stretcher” wherein Partho was made to lie down and he was breathless with ice-cold ft. She mentioned that even the medical doctors ignored her request to offer him pressing medical consideration. She additional says within the affidavit that it was solely after a hue and cry was created was Partho taken to the ICU at 6:30 AM on sixteenth, whereas he was on the hospital for the reason that afternoon of fifteenth January. She claims that she has nonetheless not been knowledgeable about his prognosis or well being standing thereafter.
Saying that his life is in actual and imminent hazard, she urges the courts for fast medical consideration to Partho Dasgupta, her husband. She says that for the reason that medical doctors at PD Hinduja Hospital are conscious of his illnesses if he’s not shifted to the hospital, she “fears he may lose his life”. She ends the prayer by saying that his current medical situation is as a result of steady bodily and psychological abuse he has been subjected to in Taloja jail.
Fake TRP rip-off
In October, Mumbai Police had made some sensational claims towards some TV channels saying that they have been manipulating TRP scores. In a press convention, the Mumbai Police commissioner had mentioned that three TV channels, together with Republic TV, have been concerned in manipulating viewership information of BARC by paying these households the place Bar-o-meters, the gadgets that observe TV viewership, are put in. 
The police had particularly talked about that Hansa Research had filed a grievance with the police. Hansa Group is an organisation that regulated the gadgets to file TRP for BARC. Interestingly, on this FIR that was filed by Hansa Research, Republic TV was not talked about even as soon as. The channel that was talked about a number of instances was India Today. 
During the investigation, a number of proof and witnesses got here ahead that alleged Mumbai Police have been intimidating them to talk towards Republic TV, together with Hansa officers. Hansa has additionally complained that they’re being harassed by the Mumbai Police to offer statements towards Republic TV.