The mysterious accused in the Television Rating Points (TRP) scam, who was being hunted by several police teams from the city, surrendered before the Special Investigation Team of the Mumbai Crime Branch on Sunday.

Abhishek Kolawade had been hiding at hotels in Goa and Karnataka under different identities and surrendered in the evening on the advice of his lawyer K H Giri, said officers. Multiple teams of Crime Intelligence Unit officers, a team of Crime Branch (CB) Unit 9, and officers of CB Unit 11 and the Property Cell were searching for him at different locations after the scam was unearthed.