Ex-COO of rankings company BARC held in TRP rigging case
December 18, 2020 6:02:42 am
“Many had been referred to as for wondering and we got here to grasp that individuals running in BARC also are concerned. As we investigated additional, Ramgarhia’s function used to be known,” mentioned an officer.
The Particular Investigation Staff of the Mumbai Police Crime Department on Thursday arrested the previous leader running officer of the Broadcast Target market Analysis Council (BARC) for his alleged involvement within the Tv Ranking Issues (TRP) manipulation rip-off.
Romil Ramgarhia used to be produced ahead of the Mumbai metropolitan Justice of the Peace court docket and remanded in police custody until December 19. That is the 14th arrest within the case.
Officials mentioned that Republic TV distribution head Ghanshyam Singh, all the way through his interrogation, had spoken concerning the twin Logical Channel Quantity (LCN) machine. LCN is an identity quantity assigned to a TV channel, and the allegations towards Republic TV are that it allegedly used twin LCN, which allowed it to turn up within the style of ‘youngsters channels’, except the ‘information channels’ class, thus appearing up at two puts.
“Many had been referred to as for wondering and we got here to grasp that individuals running in BARC also are concerned. As we investigated additional, Ramgarhia’s function used to be known,” mentioned an officer.
A police crew went to Ramgarhia’s place of abode in Wadala on Thursday morning. He used to be introduced in for wondering and arrested at 1.05 pm. The police mentioned that he held the put up of the COO in BARC from July 2014 to July 2020.
“Ramgarhia used to be acutely aware of the fad of stories viewership and channel efficiency. As he analysed the revenues of TV channels, he had wisdom in their earning,” mentioned an officer
