Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami on Tuesday moved the Bombay High Court seeking a stay on Mumbai Police’s investigations into the ...
Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami on Tuesday moved the Bombay High Court seeking a stay on Mumbai Police’s investigations into the alleged Television Rating Points manipulation scam, reported PTI. Republic TV is among the channels that have been accused of rigging numbers to ramp up its viewership.
The petition, filed by Goswami and ARG Outlier Media, which owns Republic TV, alleged that one of the employees of the firm was subjected to custodial torture. Ghanshyam Singh, Republic TV’s distribution head, was arrested on November 10 and “tortured, beaten and harassed in custody”, the plea alleged. Singh, who is also the assistant vice president of the Republic Media Network, was granted bail last week.
The channel sought protection for all its employees from the “malicious witch hunt” allegedly being carried out by the Maharashtra government. It claimed the police was working in a “pre-determined manner to falsely implicate” Goswami and others from ARG Media by “influencing witnesses, and extracting false statements against the petitioners”.
The court should, therefore, transfer the investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation or any other independent agency, the petition said.
On December 7, the Supreme Court had refused to entertain a petition filed by ARG Outlier Media and Goswami seeking protection for all employees...
