Mumbai Police Arrests Ex-Hansa Employee in TRP Scam From Uttar Pradesh

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Mumbai Police arrests Ex-Hansa employee in TRP scam from Uttar Pradesh The Mumbai police on Monday arrested one more person in connection with the TRP manipulation racket, taking the number of those in custody in the case to five, official said

arrested one more person in connection with the TRP manipulation racket, taking the number of those in custody in the case to five, official said. Vinay Tripathi, a former employee of Hansa Research agency, was arrested from Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh by the Mumbai police’s Crime Branch, they said. He earlier worked as a relationship manager at Hansa Research, they said.

Meanwhile, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Hansa Pravin Nizara and the company’s deputy manager Nitin Deokar were questioned

on Monday by the Crime Branch here in connection with the alleged scam, the officials said.

Chief Financial officer (CFO) of Republic TV Shivam Sundaram is likely to appear before the Crime Branch on Tuesday, they said.

According to the officials, Tripathi is the person who used to pay money to watch some selected channel to arrested accused Vishal Bhandari.

Tripathis name was mentioned in the remand copy of Bhandari, they said. Tripathi will be brought to Mumbai on a transit remand, the officials said. Distribution head of Republic TV Ghanshyam Singh was questioned for seven hours in Daman earlier, the officials added. Police had issued summonses to Republic TV’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vikas Khanchandani and two Chief Operating Officers (COOs) for questioning in the case.