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The Maharashtra government decided to withdraw prosecution in the alleged TRP scam 2020..
A magistrate court in Mumbai on Wednesday allowed the Mumbai Police's application to withdraw all prosecution into the alleged TRP scam of 2020 in which Republic TV's Arnab Goswami was an accused..
In 2020, Mumbai Police said they received many complaints against several channels, including Republic TV, and claimed that they inflated the ratings..
Special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray argued that the investigators hoped that victims of the alleged rigging of Television Rating Points (TRP) would come forward (to record statements), but no one who felt cheated turned up..
In a supplementary charge-sheet, police named Goswami as an accused alleging that Goswami in connivance with former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta, a co-accused, illegally tampered with the TRP- a tool to judge which programmes are watched the most and to index the viewers' choices..
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