Is CBI FIR the End of Mumbai Police’s Investigation of Fake TRPs?

Despite concerns, the recent SC order on the Sushant Singh Rajput investigation should have no bearing here.

Two weeks after the Mumbai Police began its investigation into the allegations of TRP manipulation, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has got its own probe into the racket going, following a reference from the Uttar Pradesh government.

The CBI have taken over an FIR registered by the Lucknow Police on 17 October on the basis of a complaint by the regional director of an advertising company called Golden Rabbit Communications.

Questions have already begun to be raised about this move by the CBI, given the effect this might have on the Mumbai Police’s ongoing investigation, which has implicated Arnab Goswami’s Republic channels – currently engaged in a slugfest with the Maharashtra government and the police.

.@OnReality_Check, with the CBI registering an FIR in the TRP scam involving Republic TV, has the probe now taken a political turn? pic.twitter.com/TRFR13WCsS

— NDTV (@ndtv) October 20, 2020