mumbai the mumbai crime branch probing the trp scam on friday arrested one person from chandivli who is suspected to be involved in making payments for rigging viewership figures of television channels this takes the total number of arrests in the case to nine the police are also looking for the proprietor of a marketing company in connection with the scam the police on friday also added four more additional penal sections in the case of harbouring offenders punishment for breach of trust punishment for forgery and forgery for the pur pose of cheating the ninth person arrested is harish kamlakar patil 45 the police saidthe prosecutions allegations are that my client received rs 12500 from republic tv into his account advocate ajay dubey for patil said claiming his client was innocent my client is a vendor not only for republic tv but for many other channels so whatever money he has received is for his services there is no illegality dubey said the police said that during the interrogations of two of the arrested ramji sharma and dineshkumar vishwakarma they stumbled upon the role of max media a marketing company we learnt that there were financial transactions between max medias proprietor abhishek kolwade with patil which was reflected in his bank accounts we want to know about these suspicious transactions a police officer said he alleged patil also helped abhishek kolwade to go into hiding we are looking for him all over the country the officer said meanwhile the police on friday questioned republic tvs cfo shiva sundaram he has been asked to furnish documents such as incometax returns ledger details balance sheets etc