The Mumbai Police’s Special Investigation Team probing the Television Rating Point (TRP) fraud arrested Republic TV’s distribution head Ghanshyam Dilipkumar Singh, 44, on Tuesday & produced him before a Court.
Singh has been arrested after days of questioning. He is the 12th person to be arrested in the case.
Republic said in a tweet, “Relentless attack on Republic Media network continues; Republic Distribution head AVP Ghanshyam Singh detained by crime branch; Ghanshyam had been cooperating in the Mumbai police’s fake TRP case probe".
Sachin Vaze, who is part of the investigating team, confirmed Singh’s arrest. “...we will seek his police custody”.
On Oct 31, the Special Investigation Team raided the residence & office of the arrested accused Abhishek Kolawade & seized Rs 13.72 lakh in cash. Kolawade worked as a vendor for many channels & ran a company named Max Media.
After questioning Kolawade, police arrested Ashish Chaudhary, 50, a Thane resident allegedly involved in financing people for manipulating TRP for 2 news channels & a Bollywood music channel. Chaudhary allegedly used to work as a distributor of a Hindi News channel & ran a company named Crystal Broadcast Private Limited in his wife’s name.
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