Singh, a resident of Ghodbunder Road in Thane, is the twelfth defendant to be arrested in the case. Singh, the vice president of the channel, was previously questioned by the police on multiple occasions. A metropolitan magistrate left him in police custody until November 13. Singh is accused of paying monthly sums to Abhishek Kolawade of the marketing company. Maximum media to increase Republic Bharat’s PRT between January 2020 and July 2020, said the request for pretrial detention filed by the police in court. Kolawade has also accepted money from officials at the Wow music channel, the officials said.
The criminal wing is investigating the role of six channels (Republic TV, Fakt Marathi, Box Cinema, News Nation, Mahamovies, and Wow) in inflating audience figures, a key parameter that media buying houses consider when placing ads. The channels are accused of paying money to the households (in those houses where barometers are installed) to keep the channels on.
Singh is the head of distribution for AGR Outlier Media Pvt Limited, the company that operates Republic TV, and is in contact with various officials from Multiple system operators (MSO) and Direct to Home (DTH) service providers, the rebate app said. Police said they wanted to question him to find out more about the payments made.
The police further said that Kolawade also received Rs 15 lakh per month from Singh to increase the TRP of Republic TV channel and even received money from hawala operators said the return application. Police are looking for hawala operators who could be witnesses in the case, the pretrial detention request said. Police said Singh paid money to another arrested defendant, Ashish Choudhary as well. Choudhary, in turn, paid Kolawade money, according to the app.
Kolawade then distributed the money he received among the other defendants, namely, Ramji Verma, Dinesh Vishwakarma and Umesh Mishra, who in turn paid money to the homes where the barometers were installed and who were asked to keep Republic TV on. The police had recovered 11.72 lakh rupees from Kolawade’s house and 2 lakh rupees from Choudhary’s office in Thane during a recent raid. To measure TRP, the Broadcasting Hearings Research Council (BARC) has installed barometers in the homes of select audiences. BARC had awarded the barometer monitoring contract to Hansa Research.
A metropolitan magistrate put him in preventive detention until November 13. Singh is accused of paying monthly sums to Abhishek Kolawade of marketing company Max Media to increase Republic Bharat’s PRT between January 2020 and July 2020, the pre-trial detention request filed by the police in the court said. Kolawade has also accepted money from officials at the Wow music channel, the officials said.
The criminal wing is investigating the role of six channels (Republic TV, Fakt Marathi, Box Cinema, News Nation, Mahamovies, and Wow) in inflating audience figures, a key parameter that media buying houses consider when placing ads. The channels are accused of paying money to households (in those houses where barometers are installed) to keep the channels on.
Singh is the head of distribution for AGR Outlier Media Pvt Limited, the company that operates Republic TV, and is in contact with various officials from Multi System Operators (MSO) and Direct to Home (DTH) service providers, as requested by return. Police said they wanted to question him to find out more about the payments made.
The police further said that Kolawade also received 15 lakh rupees per month from Singh to boost the TRP of Republic television channel and even received money from hawala operators, according to the pre-trial application. Police are looking for hawala operators who could be witnesses in the case, the pretrial detention request said. Police said Singh paid money to another arrested defendant, Ashish Choudhary as well. Choudhary, in turn, paid Kolawade money, according to the app.
Kolawade then distributed the money he received to the other defendants, namely Ramji Verma, Dinesh Vishwakarma and Umesh Mishra, who in turn paid money to the homes where the barometers were installed and who were asked to keep Republic TV on. The police had recovered 11.72 lakh rupees from Kolawade’s house and 2 lakh rupees from Choudhary’s office in Thane during a recent raid. To measure TRP, the Broadcasting Audiences Research Council (BARC) has installed barometers in the homes of select audiences. BARC had awarded the barometer monitoring contract to Hansa Research.
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