Mumbai: A court docket right here on Wednesday remanded Partho Dasgupta, a former CEO of score company BARC who has been arrested within the Tv Ranking Factors (TRP) rip-off, in 14 days’ judicial custody.

Dasgupta, who was produced earlier than the court docket after his police custody ended, additionally filed a bail utility.

His lawyer Kamlesh Ghumre argued that Dasgupta was CEO of the Broadcast Viewers Analysis Council however there was a board of administrators and a disciplinary committee above him.

He was not the “complete and sole of the BARC,” the lawyer stated, including that he couldn’t have manipulated the score system.

The court docket will hear the bail plea on January 1.

Mumbai police have alleged that Dasgupta misused his official place and manipulated the TRP of sure TV channels.

TRP was rigged by bribing a few of the pattern households from the place viewership information is collected to tune into explicit channels, as per the police case.