Former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta is the “mastermind” of the Television Rating Points manipulation scam and there seemed more to the case than mere rigging of TRPs, as per the sessions court that had rejected his bail plea last month.

The copy of the January 20 sessions court order was made available on February 1, and was submitted in the Bombay High Court. On Tuesday, the HC adjourned till February 9 the hearing on the bail plea of Dasgupta.