Romil Ramgarhia was produced before Esplanande court on Thursday. (Photo Ganesh Shirsekar)
The Special Investigation Team of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Thursday arrested the former chief operating officer of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) for his alleged involvement in the Television Rating Points (TRP) manipulation scam.
Romil Ramgarhia was produced before the Mumbai metropolitan magistrate court and remanded in police custody till December 19. According to the police, this is the 14th arrest in the case.
Officers said that Republic TV distribution head Ghanshyam Singh, during his interrogation, had spoken about the dual Logical Channel Number (LCN) system. LCN is an identification number assigned to a TV channel, and the allegations against Republic TV are that it allegedly used dual LCN, which allowed it to show up in the genre of ‘kids channels’, apart from the ‘news channels’ category, thus showing up at two places.
TRP Scam: SIT arrests former BARC COO Romil Ramgarhia, sent to police custody till December 19
TRP Scam: SIT arrests former BARC COO Romil Ramgarhia, sent to police custody till December 19
During his tenure as COO of rating agency BARC, Romil Ramgarhia leaked confidential information which led to rigging of TRPs, the SIT of Mumbai Police Crime Branch argued in court.
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Romil Ramgarhia, former chief operating officer (COO) of the Broadcast Audience Research Council, has been arrested in connection with the alleged TRP scam. A special investigation team (SIT) of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch took Ramgarhia into custody on Thursday.
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TRP Scam: Mumbai Police Arrest Ex-official of Broadcast Audience Research Council
Romil Ramgarhia, former chief operating officer of BARC, was arrested in relation to the TRP-rigging scam. This is the 14th arrest in the case.
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Mumbai: Mumbai police on Thursday arrested the former chief operating officer (COO) of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) in connection with the alleged television rating point (TRP) rigging scam, an official said.
Romil Ramgarhia, former COO of the BARC, was arrested in the afternoon by a team of Mumbai crime branch, which is probing the TRP case, he said. This is the 14th arrest in the case.