The case came to light on October 8 when the Mumbai police revealed that they had discovered a TRP fraud, in which the scores measured by the BARC had been manipulated by multiple channels. Police had said that an organization called Hansa Research Group Private Limited, which had been entrusted by BARC with confidential data related to ratings, had misused the data.
Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV has been implicated in the case along with channels such as Box Cinema, Fakt Marathi, News Nation, Maha Movies, among others.
So far, Republic TV’s CEO, two chief operating officers (COO) and its chief financial officer (CFO) have been summoned by the police for questioning in the case.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) registered on Friday, November 20, a money laundering case under the Money Laundering Prevention Law (PMLA) in the TRP scam case. The ED registered the FIR after receiving information from the Mumbai Police about the possibility of money laundering.
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