Mumbai Police names Republic TV in TRP racket, Goswami threatens defamation

Those responsible, Mumbai Police Commissioner said, would be arrested, be it a director, promoter or any other employee of the channel

Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh

Mumbai Police on Thursday claimed to have busted a Television Rating Points (TRP) manipulation racket, and said it had arrested four persons in the case.Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh told reporters that Republic TV channel, facing flak over its attack on Mumbai Police and Maharashtra government in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, was among the three channels involved in the racket. Those responsible, he added, would be arrested, be it a director, promoter or any other employee of the channel.

Singh said the Mumbai Police crime branch, which unearthed the racket, had arrested the owners of two Marathi channels — Fakt Marathi and Box Cinema. Another police official said two former employees of Hansa agency, involved in the process to determine the TRPs, had also been arrested. The bank accounts of these channels are being probed, the police chief said.

TRP is a tool to judge which TV programmes are viewed the most and also indicates the viewers’ choice and popularity of a particular channel. It is calculated in a confidential set of households. Singh said those involved in the racket would bribe people in these households and ask them to keep some channels switched on even when they weren’t watching them or were not at home…Read More

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