New Delhi: In a big development in the Mahadev betting app case, one of the two main promoters, Ravi Uppal, has been detained by the police in Dubai based on a red corner notice issued by Interpol at the request of the Enforcement Directorate. Uppal was detained last week and sources said he is likely to be deported to India soon.
The Mahadev app, which reportedly turned over a profit of ₹ 200 crore a day, had also caused a political stir ahead of the elections in Chhattisgarh in November.
The Enforcement Directorate had claimed that a cash courier, Asim Das, had alleged that the promoters of the app had paid ₹ 508 crore to then Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel. When he was produced before a court, however, the courier had said he was being framed as part of a conspiracy and he had never delivered any cash to politicians.
During its investigation, the agency found that Uppal holds a passport of Vanuatu, a country in the Pacific Ocean, and had been “roaming freely” using that, but had not given up his Indian citizenship. He had also applied for an Australian visa using the passport.
The other promoter of the app, Sourabh Chandrakar, whose ₹ 200-crore wedding in Dubai had been attended by several Bollywood celebrities in February, is still on the run and efforts are on to trace him, ED officials said.
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