Republic TV has served a legal notice to The Indian Express for its story claiming that the channel’s Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami bribed former chief executive officer of Broadcast Audience Research Council Partho Dasgupta to manipulate television ratings, Live Law reported on Tuesday.
“You [the newspaper] have acted as a judge, jury and executioner in breach of all journalistic ethics,” the notice said. It added that the newspaper’s headline for the story was “squarely deliberate and mischievous”.
The channel claimed that Dasgupta’s statement to the Mumbai Police about the alleged bribe was “extracted under coercion and duress”. It said the newspaper failed to mention that the statement is inadmissible as evidence and that Dasgupta has denied the claims.
Republic TV accused the newspaper of trying to tarnish its reputation. “The news report is a vile, hateful, malicious attempt by you and part of a severely prejudicial campaign engineered and…
