CBI Case Against Pronnoy Roy of NDTV

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CBI case against Prannoy Roy 

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE  
NEW DELHI, January 19: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a case of criminal conspiracy against New Delhi Television (NDTV) managing director Prannoy Roy, former Director General of Doordarshan and present Chief Executive Officer of Star TV R Basu and and five other top officials of Doordarshan.
The First Information Report (FIR) filed on the basis of ``source information'' says that the undue favour granted to Prannoy Roy had led to a loss of approximately Rs five crore to Doordarshan. The FIR names Ashok Mansukhani, the then Deputy Director General (DDG) of Doordarshan, Harish Awasthi (DDG), Shiv Sharma, the then Director General (DG), S Kapoor, the then DG, S Krishnan, the then DG, Prannoy Roy, Managing Director NDTV and the television network too.
The FIR filed in the court of Special CBI judge Ajit Bharihoke alleges that the officials of Doordarshan had ``entered into a criminal conspiracy at New Delhi during 1990-1996 with Prannoy Roy with a view to cause favour by abusing their official position.''
According to the CBI charge-sheet, DD suffered a loss of over Rs 3.52 crore due to the ``undue favours'' shown to NDTV as its programme The World This Week (TWTW) was put in `A' category instead of `special A' category.
There was a wide gap in the rates of two categories as under the former the commission rate was Rs 80,000 while under the latter it was Rs 1.70 lakh. The time slot for sponsors in the two categories was 90 and 120 seconds respectively, the FIR said. The TWTWcontinued as a commissioned programme till April 1996 and NDTV was paid Rs 1.35 crore while DD's revenue on account of this was merely Rs 3.12 lakh, resulting in a total loss of 1.32 crore to it. The inquiry report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had initially found the discrepancy and was later verified by the CBI, the FIR states.
The case has been filed under Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code for criminal conspiracy along with Sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA).

The FIR further alleges that programmes like News Tonight, News Hour, Surkhian, News Headlines, South East Asia Capsule and Good Morning Indiawere approved illegally by Basu in connivance with Mansukhani, Awasthi and other officials.

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