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Republic TV CEO Vikas Khanchandani has been arrested by the Mumbai Police within the fake ratings scam 13th particular person to be arrested. Read more: https://bit.ly/37ne4gU
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Republic TV chief VikasKhanchandani has been arrested by the Mumbai Police within the fake ratings scam — the 13th particular person to be arrested within the case up to now. The arrest of the highest govt comes lower than per week after the Supreme Court docket turned down a plea from ARG Outlier Media Non-public Restricted, which owns the Republic Media community, searching for safety for the group and its staff. “This petition is bold in nature. You need Maharashtra Police to not arrest any worker and switch the circumstances to CBI. You higher withdraw this,” Justice DY Chandrachud had instructed the group, which had accused the Maharashtra Police of “hounding” the media home, its Editor-in-Chief ArnabGoswami and its staff.
Earlier, the channel’s Head of Distribution, Ghanshyam Singh, was named within the 1,400-page cost sheet and two of the accused indicated that they are going to grow to be approvers within the case. The court docket will take a name on the matter. The case was filed in October after NitinDeokar, an official of Hansa Analysis, an company that positioned the scores metres, filed a criticism alleging the method was being manipulated.
After investigating the matter, the Mumbai Police mentioned Republic TV — which claims to have the very best scores — was tweaking scores to get excessive promoting charges by bribing the households the place the monitoring machines have been set.