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TRP Scam: Complainant Hansa Research Group Not Immune From Investigation, Mumbai Police Tells Bombay High Court

Hansa Research Group, the complainant in the Television Rating Points Scam (TRP Scam) has sought to transfer the investigation into the scam, from the Mumbai Police to the CBI, only after realising its nexus with the accused TV channels was being investigated, the Mumbai Police has said in an affidavit to the Bombay High Court. Five of the 15 people arrested by the Mumbai Police in the TRP Scam are former employees of Hansa Research Group and two other former senior officers of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), the affidavit states. Hansa Research was hired to install Bar-o-meters in select households to gauge the viewing pattern of television programmes.

TRP case: Approver says ED forced him to change his police statement

TRP case: Approver says ED forced him to change his police statement TNN / Updated: Jan 30, 2021, 09:11 IST TRP manipulation scam, Umesh Mishra, has approached the Bombay HC, saying ED forced him to change his original statement to the Mumbai police as an approver. The scam is being probed by the city police, while ED has registered a separate money laundering case in the matter. Mishra has filed an intervention application in the petition filed by Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami seeking quashing of the police FIR. Mishra said he should be heard before any order is passed in the plea. A former employee of Hansa Research, an agency that was monitoring TRPs, Mishra was arrested from Virar in October for allegedly being involved in making payments to households to keep certain TV channels on and thus inflate viewership numbers.

Approver says ED forced him to change his statement | India News

MUMBAI: One of the accused in the alleged TRP manipulation scam, Umesh Mishra, has approached the Bombay HC, saying ED forced him to change his original statement given to the Mumbai police as an approver. The scam is being probed by the city police, while ED has registered a separate money laundering case in the matter. Mishra has filed an intervention application in the petition filed by Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami seeking quashing of the police FIR. Mishra said he should be heard before any order is passed in the plea. A former employee of Hansa Research, Mishra was arrested from Virar in October for allegedly being involved in making payments to households for keeping certain TV channels on and thus inflating viewership numbers.

Hansa group seeking CBI probe with ulterior motives: Mumbai police

The demand was made only after its nexus with TV channels came to light. 29 Jan, 2021 - 01:35 PM IST     |     By indiantelevision.com Team     NEW DELHI: Questioning the intent of Hansa Research Group approaching the Bombay HC demanding the probe into the TRP manipulation case should be handed over to the CBI, the Mumbai police told the court today that the transfer of investigation is being sought with ulterior motives. In an affidavit filed before the high court, the Mumbai police said, “It is only when the investigation started to expose the nexus between the petitioner and the channel, the doors of this court were knocked to stall the on-going investigation.”

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