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Home / News / India News / TRP case: No coercive action against Arnab till January 29
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    TRP case: No coercive action against Arnab till January 29

    Nikita Gupta <br/><i>(Sourced from PTI)</i>
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    Last updated on Jan 15, 2021, 04:55 pm
    TRP case: No coercive action against Arnab till January 29
  • The Mumbai Police told the Bombay High Court on Friday that it will not take any coercive action till January 29 against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and other employees of ARG Outlier Media Pvt. Ltd. in the alleged fake TRP scam case.

    ARG Outlier Media Pvt. Ltd. is the parent company that runs all Republic TV channels.

  • In this article
    Court also extends interim relief for complainant company's employees ARG's lawyer termed allegations against Arnab 'nonsensical' Salve asks HC to request a status report from ED Mumbai Police's counsel Kapil Sibal has opposed ED's submissions ARG has filed plea to implead ED as a party Court refused to take ED's report into consideration Sibal agreed to protection being extended till January 29 ARG has asked for the case to be transferred
  • Court orders

    Court also extends interim relief for complainant company's employees

    Court also extends interim relief for complainant company's employees
  • A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale also extended till January 29, the interim relief for employees of the complainant company, Hansa Research Group, by asking the police not to call them for inquiry for more than two days a week.

    The bench also took on record the status report of the Mumbai Police investigation of the alleged scam.

  • Allegations

    ARG's lawyer termed allegations against Arnab 'nonsensical'

  • ARG Outlier Media Pvt. Ltd. had approached the High Court last year seeking, among other things, that the police be restrained from taking coercive action against its employees.

    On Friday, ARG's counsel senior advocate Harish Salve told the court that the allegations of the Mumbai Police that Republic TV's Editor-in-Chief paid bribes to rig TRP numbers were 'nonsensical.'

  • Status report

    Salve asks HC to request a status report from ED

    Salve asks HC to request a status report from ED
  • Salve said the Enforcement Directorate had registered a money laundering case related to the alleged TRP scam and was probing the same.

    He said, "The HC must call for a status report from the ED. If the contents of the status report filed by the Mumbai Police and ED differed much, the court would realize the case against ARG was malafide."

  • ED's submissions

    Mumbai Police's counsel Kapil Sibal has opposed ED's submissions

    Mumbai Police's counsel Kapil Sibal has opposed ED's submissions
  • Meanwhile, ED's counsel, Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh, told the bench that the agency had readied its status report and the court must accept it in a sealed cover.

    The Mumbai Police's counsel Kapil Sibal, however, opposed the ED's submissions. Sibal raised questions on ED's locus standi in the matter. He also said that ED was not a party in the case before HC.

  • Plea

    ARG has filed plea to implead ED as a party

  • Salve told the HC that ARG amended its plea and sought that the ED be impleaded as a party. The court then directed Sibal to file his reply to the amended plea and the ED being impleaded, by the next date of hearing.

    Sibal then went on to question the ED's "enthusiasm" to file status report even before it was impleaded as a party.

  • Court notice

    Court refused to take ED's report into consideration

    Court refused to take ED's report into consideration
  • Salve argued that the police must not have any opposition to the court going through ED's report. "I don't understand how the state agency is trying to stop a union agency from filing a report," he said.

    The court, though, refused to take the ED's status report on record on Friday and said it will consider the same on the next date of hearing.

  • Sibal's submissions

    Sibal agreed to protection being extended till January 29

  • On January 6, Sibal had told HC that Mumbai Police would not take any coercive action against Goswami and the employees till January 15.

    On Friday, the HC granted the police time to file its reply to the amended petition and adjourned the hearing till January 29. Sibal submitted that he had no objection to such protection being extended till then.

  • Details

    ARG has asked for the case to be transferred

  • Meanwhile, ARG Media has filed several pleas and interim applications in the HC urging the court to transfer the probe in the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or any other independent agency.

    To recall, the alleged racket was uncovered in October last year when the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) filed a complaint claiming certain television channels were rigging TRP numbers.

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