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Republic TV chief arrested in fake TV rating scam

by TLN Team December 13, 2020
written by TLN Team December 13, 2020
Republic TV chief arrested in fake TV rating scam

Republic TV chief Vikas Khanchandani has been arrested by the Mumbai Police in the fake rating scam. The arrest of the top executive comes less than a week after the Supreme Court turned down a plea from ARG Outlier Media Private Limited, which owns the Republic Media network, seeking protection for the group and its employees.

Earlier,  the channel’s Head of Distribution, Ghanshyam Singh, was named in the 1,400-page charge sheet and two of the accused indicated that they will become approvers in the case. The court will take a call on the matter.

The case was filed in October after Nitin Deokar, an official of Hansa Research, an agency that placed the rating metres, filed a complaint alleging the process was being manipulated.

After investigating the matter, the Mumbai Police said Republic TV which claims to have the highest ratings was tweaking ratings to get high advertising rates by bribing the households where the monitoring machines were set.

The police said the households were being paid to keep certain channels on. In each house, the people were paid Rs 400 to Rs 500 a month.

The charge sheet in the case names 140 witnesses, including forensic auditors and members of BARC or Broadcast Audience Research Council, which assesses ratings.

On its defence, the channel said that the accusations were a matter of vendetta by the Mumbai police following their clash over the Sushant Singh Rajput case.

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