His daughter took to Twitter to allege that he was tortured in jail, and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others to `save his life’
Partho Dasgupta, a 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 right here after his sugar stage shot up, officers mentioned 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’.
Mr. Dasgupta, a diabetic, was rushed to the State-run J.J. Hospital right here from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai round mid-night after his blood sugar ranges shot up, a jail official mentioned.
He was admitted to the ICU and was on oxygen help, the official mentioned.
Mr. Dasgupta, former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) was arrested in the alleged TRP rigging rip-off by crime department of the Mumbai Police on December 24 final 12 months.
A Mumbai courtroom had earlier this month rejected his bail plea, stating that he appeared to have performed a significant function in the rip-off to rig TRP as per the Police’s case.
The Mumbai Police had earlier informed the courtroom that Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami had allegedly bribed Mr. Dasgupta with “lakhs of rupees” to ramp up the information channel’s viewership numbers fradulently.
On Saturday, Pratyusha Dasgupta, Mr Dasgupta’s daugther, demanded that he be shifted to a reputed non-public hospital.
She tweeted a message titled “A helpless daughter’s anguished appeal”, tagging PM Modi, Union dwelling minister Amit Shah, the PMO in addition to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
Her mom acquired a name round 3 a.m. on Saturday informing that her father had been dropped at the hospital in unconscious state round 1 p.m. on Friday, she mentioned.
For 14 hours no one from the household was knowledgeable about Mr. Dasgupta’s situation as a result of the authorities allegedly didn’t have their contact numbers, Pratyusha mentioned.
When they reached the hospital, they discovered he was unable to talk, she mentioned.
It was obvious that he had been “physically and mentally tortured inside the jail”, she alleged.
