Tamannaah Bhatia has been summoned by the Maharashtra cyber cell
Actor Tamannaah Bhatia has been summoned in reference to the promotion of a subsidiary app of Mahadev online gaming and betting application, sources stated on Thursday.
The actor has been summoned by the Maharashtra cyber cell for allegedly selling the viewing of the Indian Premier Matches (IPL) matches on the Fairplay betting app.
Ms Bhatia, who has acted in movies like ‘Baahubali’ and ‘Lust Stories 2’, has been summoned as a witness and requested to seem earlier than the cyber cell subsequent week.
Some IPL matches had been streamed illegally on the app, as per the criticism by a broadcaster.
The Maharashtra Cyber Cell has already recorded statements of singer Badshah and the managers of actors Sanjay Dutt and Jacqueline Fernandez within the case.
FairPlay Betting App
FairPlay is a betting trade platform that provides all kinds of sports activities and leisure leisure playing.
According to the app’s web site, Cricket is essentially the most cherished sport on FairPlay, adopted by Football and Tennis.
All sports activities matches are streamed reside on FairPlay for the participant’s ease to “watch and win at the same time”, the web site stated.
FairPlay’s Mahadev Betting App Connection
FairPlay is a subsidiary utility of the Mahadev online gaming app, which additionally offers platforms for unlawful betting in several reside video games like Cricket, Poker, Badminton, Tennis, Football card video games, and probability video games.
The Mahadev betting app made headlines final 12 months when actors Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor, who’ve appeared in adverts for the app, had been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning.
The app got here below the crosshairs of probe businesses after a Rs 200-crore wedding ceremony within the UAE in February final 12 months, paid for totally in money.
Mahadev Online betting app was operated by Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal from Dubai. Both of them belong to Chhattisgarh’s Bhilai.
The firm used to get new clients by repeatedly creating new web sites and closed teams on chat apps. They would usually run paid commercials on social media apps and attempt to get individuals to textual content their numbers to earn earnings.
The ED, which has now been investigating the Mahadev app-linked cash laundering case for greater than a 12 months, alleged up to now that its probe has proven involvement of assorted high-ranking politicians and bureaucrats from Chhattisgarh.
The projected proceeds of crime on this case are about Rs 6,000 crore, in response to the ED.