NEW DELHI: Top Republic TV The officials appeared before Mumbai police on Sunday to be questioned about the grade manipulation scam.
The Mumbai Criminal Branch of Police had on Saturday issued a subpoena to Republic TV CEO Vikas Khanchandani and two COOs for questioning in the bogus TRP scam case. Khanchandani and COO Harsh Bhandari appeared today for questioning.
Police have arrested four people in connection with the case so far.
The Mumbai Criminal Branch of Police had on Saturday issued a subpoena to Republic TV CEO Vikas Khanchandani and two COOs for questioning in the bogus TRP scam case. Khanchandani and COO Harsh Bhandari appeared today for questioning.
Police have arrested four people in connection with the case so far.
Previously, Republic TV CFO Shiva Subramaniyam Sundaram and another official, Ghanshyam Singh, decided not to appear before the investigation team saying that the news channel had approached the Supreme Court.
Two employees of the Box Cinema and Fakht Marathi channels were also summoned by the criminal branch of the police.
Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh had claimed that three channels, including Republic TV, manipulated the PRT.
The scandal came to light when the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), an organization that measures TRP, filed a complaint about it through Hansa Research Group Pvt Ltd, police said.
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