Dasgupta is the fifteenth person to be arrested in the case related to alleged rigging of television rating points by some television channels Mumbai: The crime branch of Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested a former CEO of the Broadcast Audience Research Council from Pune district in the fake TRP scam case, an official said. Partho Dasgupta, the accused, is the …
The Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested former chief operating officer of the Broadcast Audience Research Council Romil Ramgarhia in connection with the alleged ‘Fake TRP’ scam, after almost 4 months of his resignation from BARC. The arrest of former BARC COO comes just days after Mumbai Police had continued its witch-hunt against Republic Media Network and had arrested CEO Vikas …
The Mumbai police said that they have busted a racket involving three television news channels for manipulating TRPs for advertising gains, discrepancies, which were spotted by television monitoring agency BARC. “Certain households were paid to keep their television sets on irrespective of whether they were at home or not, even with some English channels for uneducated individuals,” police commissioner Param …
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