<p>Partho Dasgupta, a former CEO of TV ratings agency BARC who was arrested in the Television Rating Points (TRP) rigging case, has been admitted to the ICU of a hospital here after his sugar level shot up, officials said on Saturday.</p>.<p>His daughter took to Twitter to allege that he was tortured in prison, and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others to `save his life'.</p>.<p>Dasgupta, a diabetic, was rushed to the state-run J J Hospital here from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai around midnight after his blood sugar levels shot up, a prison official said.</p>.<p>He was admitted to the ICU and was on oxygen support, the official said.</p>.<p>Dasgupta, former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) was arrested in the alleged TRP rigging scam by the crime branch of the Mumbai Police on December 24 last year.</p>.<p>A Mumbai court had earlier this month rejected his bail plea, stating that he appeared to have played a vital role in the scam to rig TRP as per the police's case.</p>.<p>The Mumbai Police had earlier told the court that Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami had allegedly bribed Dasgupta with "lakhs of rupees" to ramp up the news channel's viewership numbers fraudulently.</p>.<p>On Saturday, Pratyusha Dasgupta, Dasgupta's daughter, demanded that he be shifted to a reputed private hospital.</p>.<p>She tweeted a message titled "A helpless daughter's anguished appeal", tagging PM Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, the PMO as well as Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray.</p>.<p>Her mother received a call around 3 am on Saturday informing that her father had been brought to the hospital in an unconscious state around 1 pm on Friday, she said.</p>.<p>For 14 hours nobody from the family was informed about Dasgupta's condition because the authorities allegedly did not have their contact numbers, Pratyusha said.</p>.<p>When they reached the hospital, they found he was unable to speak, she said.</p>.<p>It was apparent that he had been "physically and mentally tortured inside the jail", she alleged. </p>
<p>Partho Dasgupta, a former CEO of TV ratings agency BARC who was arrested in the Television Rating Points (TRP) rigging case, has been admitted to the ICU of a hospital here after his sugar level shot up, officials said on Saturday.</p>.<p>His daughter took to Twitter to allege that he was tortured in prison, and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others to `save his life'.</p>.<p>Dasgupta, a diabetic, was rushed to the state-run J J Hospital here from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai around midnight after his blood sugar levels shot up, a prison official said.</p>.<p>He was admitted to the ICU and was on oxygen support, the official said.</p>.<p>Dasgupta, former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) was arrested in the alleged TRP rigging scam by the crime branch of the Mumbai Police on December 24 last year.</p>.<p>A Mumbai court had earlier this month rejected his bail plea, stating that he appeared to have played a vital role in the scam to rig TRP as per the police's case.</p>.<p>The Mumbai Police had earlier told the court that Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami had allegedly bribed Dasgupta with "lakhs of rupees" to ramp up the news channel's viewership numbers fraudulently.</p>.<p>On Saturday, Pratyusha Dasgupta, Dasgupta's daughter, demanded that he be shifted to a reputed private hospital.</p>.<p>She tweeted a message titled "A helpless daughter's anguished appeal", tagging PM Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, the PMO as well as Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray.</p>.<p>Her mother received a call around 3 am on Saturday informing that her father had been brought to the hospital in an unconscious state around 1 pm on Friday, she said.</p>.<p>For 14 hours nobody from the family was informed about Dasgupta's condition because the authorities allegedly did not have their contact numbers, Pratyusha said.</p>.<p>When they reached the hospital, they found he was unable to speak, she said.</p>.<p>It was apparent that he had been "physically and mentally tortured inside the jail", she alleged. </p>