The Mumbai Police filed a supplementary chargesheet in the case concerning the alleged Television Rating Points (TRP) scam brought to light by its Crime Branch. .Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami has now been added as an accused in the case. .The chargesheet was filed before the Court of the Metropolitan Magistrate at Esplanade, Mumbai on Tuesday..According to sources, the second chargesheet is over 1,600 pages and has enlisted 7 more persons as accused. The Mumbai Police, in its first chargesheet, had stated that there were 22 accused in the case. However so far, chargesheets had only been filed against 15 accused. .[TRP Scam] Former BARC employees conspired with ARG Outlier CEO to manipulate Republic TV TRPs: Mumbai Police in chargesheet.The following seven persons have been made accused in the supplementary chargesheet:Arnab Ranjan Goswami, Editor in Chief, Republic TV.Amit Mohan DaveSanjay Sukhdev VarmaPriya Mukherjee, Chief Operating Officer, Republic TVSiva Subramaniam, Chief Financial Officer, Republic TVShivendra Mundherkar, Employee, Republic TVRanjit Walter, Employee, Republic TV.The chargesheet was filed for the commission of offences under Sections 406, 409 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) 465, 468 (forgery), 201, 204 (disappearance or destruction of evidence), 212 (harbouring offender) and 120B (conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code..The Crime Branch initiated the investigation in the TRP scam after it discovered, through certain employees of the Hansa Group, that ‘sampling metering services’ were being manipulated by paying people to watch particular TV channels.
The Mumbai Police filed a supplementary chargesheet in the case concerning the alleged Television Rating Points (TRP) scam brought to light by its Crime Branch. .Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami has now been added as an accused in the case. .The chargesheet was filed before the Court of the Metropolitan Magistrate at Esplanade, Mumbai on Tuesday..According to sources, the second chargesheet is over 1,600 pages and has enlisted 7 more persons as accused. The Mumbai Police, in its first chargesheet, had stated that there were 22 accused in the case. However so far, chargesheets had only been filed against 15 accused. .[TRP Scam] Former BARC employees conspired with ARG Outlier CEO to manipulate Republic TV TRPs: Mumbai Police in chargesheet.The following seven persons have been made accused in the supplementary chargesheet:Arnab Ranjan Goswami, Editor in Chief, Republic TV.Amit Mohan DaveSanjay Sukhdev VarmaPriya Mukherjee, Chief Operating Officer, Republic TVSiva Subramaniam, Chief Financial Officer, Republic TVShivendra Mundherkar, Employee, Republic TVRanjit Walter, Employee, Republic TV.The chargesheet was filed for the commission of offences under Sections 406, 409 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) 465, 468 (forgery), 201, 204 (disappearance or destruction of evidence), 212 (harbouring offender) and 120B (conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code..The Crime Branch initiated the investigation in the TRP scam after it discovered, through certain employees of the Hansa Group, that ‘sampling metering services’ were being manipulated by paying people to watch particular TV channels.
