MUMBAI: Former Barc CEO Partho Dasgupta, accused in the alleged television ratings point (TRP) rigging case, petitioned Bombay high court on Friday for bail and for an urgent hearing for relief after learning that J J Hospital planned to discharge him though his health has “deteriorated”.
Justice P D Naik called for a report on Dasgupta’s “heath condition” on Monday when it will also hear his bail plea. Public prosecutor Deepak Thakare informed a bench of Justice P D Naik, at an urgent 7pm hearing, Dasgupta has been discharged from JJ hospital and taken back to Taloja jail.
Dasgupta’s lawyer Arjun Singh Thakur, while seeking the urgent hearing and relief, said, “The applicant’s wife and daughter have managed to get a video of him being transported on a stretcher”. Dasgupta was “on oxygen until Friday afternoon. He is being transferred in a very suspicious manner for reasons best known to the respondents (state)”. Thakare said jail doctors would treat him and submit a report on his health status to court on Monday. On Wednesday, a sessions court had rejected the bail plea of Dasgupta, arrested in the alleged TRP scam.