From The New Indian Express
Center Owned by Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd.Court grants CBI eight-day custody of alleged Mahadev app kingpin Saurabh Chandrakar
What's behind this
The Central Bureau of Investigation has said it needs to interrogate Saurabh Chandrakar, the promoter of the Mahadev betting app, to identify Chhattisgarh officials alleged to have received protection money and to trace the proceeds of the betting operation. Chandrakar is described as the alleged kingpin of a Rs 6,000‑crore scam, and the CBI is seeking his cooperation to map the protection‑money network.
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RAIPUR: In the high-profile multi-thousand-crore Mahadev online betting scam, a special court in Raipur on Wednesday granted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) an eight-day custodial remand of the syndicate's alleged kingpin, Saurabh Chandrakar. Following his recent extradition to India from…