Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai

Mumbai, Jan 30: In a surprise turn in the ongoing TRP manipulation case, Umesh Mishra, one of the accused approached the Bombay high court and stated that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had forced him to change his original statement which he had given as approver. He has asked the court to hear him before passing any ruling in the case.

Mishra informed a local court that he wished to turn approver in the TRP scam case.

"The intervener states that his true and correct statement has not been recorded by the officer of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), but the same is recorded, which is not a true and correct statement, therefore, it has become just and necessary for him to intervene in the above matter with the permission of this court and the intervener be heard according to the law," Mishra stated in his intervention application.

Mishra said that he had gone to the investigation agency to record his statement as he was summoned by the directorate on December 18, 2020, but the statement recorded before the metropolitan magistrate was under threat which is contrary to his original statement.