Man held in Mirzapur over Maharashtra TRP scam

LUCKNOW: A 35-year-old man was arrested from Mirzapur in connection with the television rating points (TRP) manipulation scam by Mumbai Police on Monday.
Vinay Tripathi was arrested in connection with the TRP scam busted last week. Mumbai Police had claimed that a TRP racket was being run by some TV channels to manipulate Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) TRP on October 8.
ASP Mirzapur, city, Sanjai Kumar said that Tripathi was arrested from Kachhwa police station.
“Tripathi’s family resides in Tulapur village where his father Rajendra Prasad is a farmer,” said Kumar.
Kumar also said that Tripathi rarely visited his village in Mirzapur and was settled in Mumbai.
“So far, we have not got any criminal record of Tripathi in the district or the state,” he said.
A four-member team of Mumbai Police crime branch had visited Mirzapur with the warrant for Tripathi on Monday around 7.30pm.
“Tripathi will be produced in the local court on Tuesday by Mumbai Police for a remand and then taken to Mumbai,” said SHO Kachhwa Subhash Chandra Rai.
TOI tried talking to the father of the accused but he did not respond to calls.