BARC official, channel owner booked for alleged rating forgery

The Kalamassery constabulary person registered a lawsuit against an authoritative of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) and the proprietor of Malayalam quality transmission Reporter for alleged forgery successful transmission rating.

The lawsuit was registered connected Monday (December 1) based connected a ailment filed by C. Unnikrishnan, elder vice president of 24 News, different Malayalam quality channel.

Premnadh, elder manager, BARC, has been named arsenic the archetypal accused successful the archetypal accusation study (FIR), portion the ‘owner of Reporter channel’ is arraigned arsenic the 2nd accused without mentioning immoderate name. BARC is an manufacture assemblage acceptable up to reappraisal tv assemblage viewership.

The FIR states that the archetypal accused allegedly forged the standing information to task higher standing for the transmission of the 2nd accused and little the points for the complainant’s transmission since July 14, 2025. The archetypal accused besides allegedly handed implicit confidential information from standing metres to the 2nd accused. The complainant alleged that the information forgery caused a nonaccomplishment of astir ₹15 crore to his transmission successful presumption of advertisement revenue, according to the FIR.

The accused person been charged nether Section 316(2) (criminal breach of trust), Section 318 (cheating), and Section 340 (use of forged documents oregon physics records) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.