The Detection Crime Branch of Mumbai police, which unearthed the TRP racket, has arrested owners of two Marathi channels, for manipulating viewership ratings, the official said.
The Mumbai police on Thursday claimed to have busted a Television Rating Points (TRP) manipulation racket, adding two persons have been arrested in the case.
Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh said that the authorities are tightening its screws on an agency named 'Hansa', said to be associated with Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), which calculates the TRP.
The maintenance of over 3000 parameters across the country and around 2000 parameters in Mumbai, was given to Hansa, another agency associated with BARC which was tampering with TRP.
TRPs were tampered with by sharing the data with a channel in the houses where these convivial parameters were placed. In these houses, a particular channel was asked to be kept on, and in return, they were given money.
Nearly Rs 8 to 10 lakh were recovered from the bank account of the arrested person.
Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh told reporters that a national TV news channel, facing flak over its attack on Mumbai police and Maharashtra government in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, was also involved in the TRP racket.
"We think this kind of practice may be going on across the country," he said. Republic TV is also under the radar and is being investigated. The case was detected by the Crime Intelligence Unit of Mumbai Police. There may be that a few people may get summoned today and will be called for questioning in the next day or two.
The Detection Crime Branch of Mumbai police, which unearthed the TRP racket, has arrested owners of two Marathi channels, for manipulating viewership ratings, the official said.
This national news channel is also involved in the TRP racket and persons responsible for this will also be arrested, whether one is director, promoter, or any other employee of the channel, the police commissioner said.
Bank accounts of these channels are also being probed and people responsible for the TRP racket are being summoned by police for further investigation in the case, he said
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