BARC ex-CEO accused in TRP scam admitted to ICU | India News – Times of India

MUMBAI: Former CEO of BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council) Partho Dasgupta, the principle accused in the TRP manipulation racket, was admitted to JJ hospital after his well being deteriorated late Friday night time. Sources mentioned he was admitted to the ICU in the center of the night time after he complained of uneasiness and a spike in blood strain. His household has alleged there was delay in offering him medical support.
Pratyusha Dasgupta, his daughter, has addressed a letter to PM Modi asking him to “save” her father’s “life”. “Today at 3 am (Saturday) my mother received a phone call asking her to reach JJ Hospital immediately since my father was brought there. On reaching there, the doctors asked us why no one from his family had come to the hospital for 12 hours since my father was brought to the hospital in an unconscious state at around 1pm on January 15. The reason provided was that they did not have our phone numbers to contact us and hence, waited till my father was conscious enough to give them my mother’s phone number. This is in spite of the several mails we have sent to jail authorities requesting permission to reach my father with my phone number,” Pratyusha mentioned in her letter.

She added, “At the emergency room, he was incoherent, unable to speak or express himself properly when he desperately tried to talk to us, and his sugar levels had shot up to alarmingly high levels (516).”
Pratyusha mentioned her father had been affected by severe illnesses for a few years, together with diabetes, hypertension and ankylosing spondylitis, an autoimmune dysfunction. “Given the state he is in, I am deeply concerned about his life,” she added.
She additional mentioned the household had been regulation-abiding residents and need that the case ought to comply with the pure course by way of the courts of regulation. “However, what we have been made to go through is a matter of utmost concern….My plea to you, sir, is to please save my father’s life by allowing proper medical treatment in a reputed hospital at our expense,” the letter mentioned.
A Taloja jail official mentioned, “He missed his diabetes medicine after which his sugar levels shot up. Here, he was under medication and when his condition worsened, on doctor’s advice he was immediately moved to JJ. There was no delay from our side.”
Dasgupta is accused of conniving with Arnab Goswami and others to manipulate TRP rankings. Dasgupta’s lawyer Arjun Singh Thakur mentioned, “He was admitted at JJ but the family was not informed until much later.”