Towards the finish of 2020, the Mumbai Police had started examining a supposed TRP (Television Rating Point) trick. In a reasonably thrilling declaration toward the start of October, Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh had named Republic TV and two more modest TV channels – Fakt Marathi and Box Cinema – and said that secret information was being abused for “illegitimate increases by different TV channels”.
There have been a few exciting bends in the road to the story resulting in a very long time as the examination proceeded. The names of other media associations had sprung up even as Republic TV asserted that it was being defamed. A few people related with the channel have been captured, and as of late previous BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta was denied bail. “We have discovered proof on record through examination with Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) against Republic TV and Arnab,” the Mumbai Police told the Bombay High Court as of late.
Furthermore, presently, no doubt we, at last, have some knowledge on equivalent to the Mumbai Police delivered an enormous number of WhatsApp messages. More than 500 pages of visit messages purportedly between Arnab Goswami and Partho Dasgupta have circulated the web, with many calling this “dooming proof”.
The enormous pdf starts with a suggestion that this is a case documented with the Kandivali Police, and the record bears different marks on each page. It begins in July 2019 and stretches out until mid-October the same year. It isn’t one visit. Passing by the page headings, talks with Arnab Goswami, Vikas Aidem, the RRP Group, Romil Ramgaria and more in the one volume that FPJ got to.
The points run the extent – from remarks on Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti to comments about how the channel had broken different news subjects long ways in front of contenders. Other words are maybe additionally concerning. While Dasgupta names Union Minister Prakash Javadekar “pointless” in one message, Goswami purportedly says that “all priests are with us” while talking about the channel’s possibility of succeeding.
Arnab : I am meeting @PrakashJavdekar tomorrow
Partho : Javdekar is useless. #Arnab #WhatsApp pic.twitter.com/Ac2qIsu3or— Abhijeet Dipke (@abhijeet_dipke) January 15, 2021
Arnab goswami of @republic‘s conversation with BARC CEO is another #RadiaTape moment of indian journalism. Clear case of corruption with coordinated efforts of political class. pic.twitter.com/rPI7Bju9ud— Atul Chaurasia (@BeechBazar) January 15, 2021
“All Ministers with us”
‘Alleged’ leaked whatsapp chats of Arnab and ex BARC CEO pic.twitter.com/DxNeSdwxjM— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) January 15, 2021
Further subtleties anticipated.