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Arnab Goswami shown as an accused in TRP manipulation scam
Updated On: 23 June, 2021 07:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Vishal Singh
Crime Branch charge sheet says viewership details were rigged to show Republic TV as No. 1, produces WhatsApp chats between ex-BARC head and Arnab
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Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and Former BARC head Partho Dasgupta
The Mumbai Crime Branch filed a supplementary charge sheet in the TRP manipulation scam on Tuesday, showing Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV, as an accused. WhatsApp messages between the TV anchor and Partho Dasgupta, former head of industry body BARC, are part of the 1,912-page document. It says viewership numbers were manipulated to help Goswami’s channel gain the number one spot.
The accused in the supplementary charge sheet are Arnab Goswami, Priya Mukherjee, Shivendu Muledhkar and Shiva Sundaram from ARG Outlier Media that owns Republic TV and Sanjay Verma and Amit Dave from Maha Movie channel. So far, 22 people have been made accused in this case.
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