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In a pretrial detention report filed in court on Monday, Mumbai police said Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami had paid “thousands of rupees” to Partho dasgupta, former CEO of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), to “Increase” TV Ranking Points (TRP) from the two Republic news channels. “… When Dasgupta …

MUMBAI: Mumbai Police, investigating allegations that Republic TV and two Marathi channels bribed households with meter bars so they could inflate viewership ratings, saying they found a larger money trail than initially suspected, linking channels to a key suspect who is under arrest. There are transactions that show the funds …