<span style="color: #222222;">Mumbai Police today arrested the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) in connection with the alleged TRP (Television Rating Points) rigging case.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A police official informed that Romil Ramgarhia, former COO of the BARC, was arrested in the afternoon by a team of Mumbai crime branch, after his alleged involvement in the case came to light during the probe. The official added that he would be produced before a local court.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This is the 14th arrest in the case.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">On Sunday, the police had arrested Republic Media Network's Chief Executive Officer Vikas Khanchandani in connection with the scam. However, he was granted bail by a court yesterday.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The police began a probe into the alleged scam after ratings agency BARC filed a complaint through Hansa Research Agency about rigging of TRP by some channels.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It was alleged that some of these families were being bribed to tune into certain channels to ramp up their TRP.</span><br />'' <br />''