Sanjay Raut comments on the case come just one day after the Mumbai Police commissioner in a press conference claimed to have busted a Television Rating Points manipulation racket.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut defended the Mumbai Police on Friday and dismissed the allegations made on the police force that said it acted in a "vindictive manner" in busting a racket allegedly involved in manipulating the Television Rating Points (TRP).
Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP said, "Mumbai Police took a courageous step to unravel this scam. This is just a beginning...Everything will be unraveled soon. The TRP scam is worth Rs 30,000 crore and why are people quiet about it? Who is behind all this? Where has the money come?"
Raut also called the Mumbai Police a "professional police force", and clarified that they did not take any ''action out of revenge or vindictiveness.''
Additionally, Raut criticised the section of media that allegedly targeted the Maha Vijas Aghadi government led by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his family.
Sanjay Raut comments on the case come just one day after the Mumbai Police commissioner in a press conference claimed to have busted a Television Rating Points manipulation racket.
Mumbai Police said that it is investigating ''Hansa'', an agency associated with the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), which calculates the TRP.
Mumbai Police later issued a statement on the TRP scam saying, "The complainant had mentioned the name of a channel in her application. When we began the investigation, no evidence was found against that channel. However, we found three channels including, Republic TV, and two Marathi channels — Box Cinema and Fakt Marathi, of rigging TRPs. Two people related to Box Cinema and Fakt Marathi channels have been arrested, while an investigation against the third channel, i.e. Republic TV, is underway."
The police alleged that Hansa has misused the data, adding that sample houses, where barometers had been installed to monitor ratings, were paid to watch certain TV channels.
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