Republic TV And Arnab Goswami's Plea Against Mumbai Police's FIR In TRP Scam: Live Updates From Bombay High Court
J Shinde - What you are arguing demonstrated malice
Mundargi - And an unnatural way of collecting evidence, and efforts to somehow name the petitioner's channel by hook or by crook .
Mundargi now refers to a communication from BARC's Sunil Lulla to Arnab Goswami where BARC says - "There is no disciplinary proceedings initiated against Republic TV or Republic Bharat from 2017 under Code of Conduct...
Refers to a letter dated Nov 4, 2020 between BARC and Prasar Bharti from the charge sheet
Arnab had written asking for disclosure of all the information against them.
Mundargi - Yes
Mundargi - This interview speaks volumes of the way the case is investigated, information seems to be collected.
J Pitale - You are basically saying that it is understandable if there is a terror attack and the CP Mumbai Police takes a press conference.
Mundargi - The long and short is the police officer was feeding the press that there was a Scam. This interview points out that there was not sufficient material to say whatever was being said.
J Shinde - In another case, we did express that incident is of 2013, we are in 2021 investigation is not complete. Ultimately it is about the trust of the citizens in the system.
Refers to Dabholkar Pansare
...The police come forward on 6th with gupt information. The officer (Sachin Waze) is also very controversial. This is the chain.
Mundargi - Because there is no report by BARC, analytical or otherwise, that Repulic manipulated TRPs. Now the other channel is being given the clean chit. The original information was in respect of another channel. ...
Continues reading from CP Mumbai Police press conference. "We arrested two people, the third big entity that has come forward is Republic"
Mundargi - This shows the source of their information is BARC.
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