26 November,2020 07:31 AM IST | Mumbai | Agencies
TRP scam accused at Esplanade court. File pic/Suresh Karkera
The Maharashtra government on Wednesday urged the Bombay High Court to issue orders directing Republic TV and other news channels to refrain from running a "parallel investigation and trial" into the allegedTRP (Television Rating Points) rigging scam. A bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik, however, said it cannot pass any orders at this stage to restrain the reportage in the case.
Appearing for the state government, senior advocate Kapil Sibal told the court that the channels had been running a parallel investigation and trial, calling witnesses and making statements, while the matter was sub-judice.
"While the case is being heard, the TV channel is calling witnesses, statements are being made...," Sibal said. He made the submission before the bench which was hearing a plea filed by ARG Outlier Media Private Limited, the company that runs Republic TV, seeking a stay on the ongoing police probe into the alleged TRP scam. The plea seeks that the probe be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Senior advocate Abad Ponda, who appeared for Republic TV's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, told the HC that the issue of parallel trials or probes was already a subject matter of several petitions filed in courts across the country.
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