TRP case charge sheet names Republic TV head Arnab Goswami as accused

The criminal intelligence unit (CIU) of the Mumbai police crime branch on Tuesday filed a 1,912-page second supplementary charge sheet in the television rating point (TRP) manipulation case, naming seven more persons, including Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV and R Bharat news channels, as an accused. Goswami’s lawyer refused to comment.

With the addition of the seven new accused, five of them connected to Republic TV group , namely Goswami, Shiva Subramanyam, Priya Mukherji, Shivendra Muldhekar and Ranjit Waltkar, and two to Maha Movie channel, Amit Dave and Sanjay Verma, the number of accused in the case has now gone up to 22.