Former CEO of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), Partho Dasgupta, was admitted to the JJ Hospital in Mumbai on Friday (January 15) after complaints of breathlessness and increased blood sugar levels. Incidentally, Dasgupta is in judicial custody at the Taloja Jail for his alleged role in the TRP scam.
It is reported by the jail authorities that Dasgupta was shifted to the JJ hospital on January 15 at around 1 pm. He was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and put on oxygen support.
According to the police, Dasgupta is a blood sugar patient and he has fluctuating blood pressure.
Dasgupta was admitted soon after his WhatsApp chats with the Republic TV’s editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami were leaked. The chats are a part of the Mumbai police’s supplementary charge sheet against Dasgupta in the TRP scam.
Dasgupta’s daughter Pratyusha wrote and shared an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming that the family was informed 14 hours after her…