A hearing was held in the Supreme Court on Wednesday (8 October) in the famous Mahadev Satta App case of Chhattisgarh. During this time, all the 12 accused in the Mahadev online betting case got bail. All these accused are lodged in Raipur Central Jail for the last two and a half years. The bench of Supreme Court Justices MM Sudrash and Satish Chandra Sharma gave this decision after hearing the case.
According to the information, the bench of Justices MM Sudrash and Satish Chandra Sharma has granted bail to all the 12 accused including Ritesh Kumar Yadav, Bharat Jyoti, Vishwajit Rai, Rahul Vakte, Nitish Diwan. Who was lodged in Raipur Central Jail for the last two and a half years. All of them were made accused in the Mahadev Satta App case.
What is Mahadev Betting App?
Mahadev Betting App is an app designed for online betting. Mahadev Book App was launched in the year 2016 by Saurabh Chandrakar, Ravi Uppal and Atul Agarwal. Gradually this app became the largest online betting network. Through this, betting was done in sports like cricket, football, tennis and badminton. This online betting app was operated from Dubai. Which gradually became notorious for activities like gambling and money laundering.
Call centers in many states
Within no time, this app became very popular and within a few months it had more than 12 lakh users. ED investigation revealed that most of these numbers were from Chhattisgarh. Betting was done on many matters ranging from cricket to election results. Mahadev Betting App had 30 call centers in many different states of the country. The operators of Mahadev App bought another Hyderabad-based betting platform called Reddy Anna for about Rs 1,000 crore. After which the user base on the app crossed 50 lakhs. Daily earnings through this app started reaching Rs 200 crore.
Saurabh Chandrakar is a resident of Bhilai.
Saurabh Chandrakar Saurabh Chandrakar, a resident of Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, was operating Mahadev Book and many online betting companies while living in Dubai. Till 2018, he used to operate a juice center. This was his source of employment. Saurabh went to Dubai in the year 2019. He also called his friend Ravi Uppal there. He launched Mahadev App from there itself. It started growing so fast and gradually it got the name of betting market.
Questioning Bollywood stars
Bollywood stars Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor were also called for questioning by ED in the Mahadev betting app case. He was called to give information about the source of money received from the betting app. Kapil Sharma, Huma Qureshi and Hina Khan were also called for questioning after they performed at a wedding in Dubai in February. ED says that 17 Bollywood celebrities were brought to Dubai in a chartered flight to perform at the wedding. Crores of rupees were allegedly paid to all of them through Hawala.
