Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in 2017 allegedly paid thousands of dollars and lakhs of rupees to former BARC chief executive officer Partho Dasgupta to boost his channel's TRP, the Mumbai Crime Branch has stated in its remand application. Based on these submissions, the Killa court on Monday extended Dasgupta's police custody till December 30.

The Mumbai Crime Branch, in its remand application, mentioned that during the investigation they were able to establish that Goswami, with the help of other accused, manipulated the Television Rating Points (TRP) of his Hindi and English news channels.