Arnab Goswami booked in TRP manipulation case
The Mumbai Police has named Arnab Goswami, the editor-in-chief of Republic TV and proprietor of ARG Outlier Media, as an accused in the Television Ratings Points manipulation case.
Mr. Goswami has been named together with Shivendu Mulekar, chief working officer Priya Mukherjee and chief monetary officer Shiva Sundaram in the 1,800-page chargesheet.
On October 8, 2020, Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh had stated {that a} TRP racket had been busted which concerned Republic TV, Box Cinema, and Fakt Marathi. He had stated that the channels had been manipulating TRPs and had been concerned in distorting the system utilized by the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) to charge tv channels.
On March 17, 2021, the Bombay High Court had requested why the Mumbai Police hasn’t named Mr. Goswami as an accused in the FIR in the case.
The different accused embrace Partho Dasgupta, former chief govt workplace of BARC, and
14 others.They have been charged below Sections 409 (legal breach of belief by public servant, or by banker, service provider or agent), 420 (dishonest and dishonestly inducing supply of property), 406 (punishment for legal breach of belief), 465 (punishment for forgery), 468 (forgery for goal of dishonest), 201 (inflicting disappearance of proof of offence, or giving false data to display screen offender), 204 (destruction of doc or digital document to forestall its manufacturing as proof), and 212 (harbouring offender) of the Indian Penal Code.