{"id":777015094,"date":"2024-04-29T09:36:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T12:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777015094"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:46:13","slug":"indian-police-arrest-actor-allegedly-linked-to-mahadev-book-betting-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indian-police-arrest-actor-allegedly-linked-to-mahadev-book-betting-app","title":{"rendered":"Indian police arrest actor allegedly linked to Mahadev Book betting app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sahil Khan was arrested in Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- The actor\u00a0<strong>Sahil Khan\u00a0<\/strong>was arrested by the Mumbai police crime branch in Chattisgarh on Sunday morning (April 28) in connection with\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/authorities-freeze-assets-in-mahadev-book-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mahadev betting app<\/a>.\u00a0Bombay High Court had rejected Khan&#8217;s anticipatory bail application. Khan is said to be one of 32 people who are under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last September, the Enforcement Directorate (ED)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-authorities-raid-offices-of-celebrity-managers-in-mahadev-book-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raided the offices of celebrity managers<\/a>\u00a0in Mumbai and Delhi as part of a money laundering investigation related to the wedding of Sourabh Chandrakar, owner of the Mahadev app. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sahil Khan was arrested in Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777011924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Actor Sahil Khan was arrested in Chhattisgarh by the Mumbai police crime branch in connection with the Mahadev betting app investigation, following the rejection of his anticipatory bail application by the Bombay High Court. This arrest is part of a broader money laundering probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that previously involved raids related to the app's owner, Sourabh Chandrakar.","focusai_entities":"Sahil Khan, Mumbai police crime branch, Mahadev betting app, Bombay High Court, Enforcement Directorate, ED, Sourabh Chandrakar","focusai_location":"India, Chhattisgarh, Mumbai, Delhi","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on India's iGaming?","query":"What are the broader implications of the Mahadev betting app arrests for the regulatory landscape and the future of both legal and illegal iGaming operations in India?"},{"label":"Further Enforcement Actions?","query":"Given the ongoing investigation and the involvement of 32 individuals, what is the likelihood of further high-profile arrests or asset seizures by the ED and Mumbai police in connection with the Mahadev app?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777015094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777015094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777015109,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015094\/revisions\/777015109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777011924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777015094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777015094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777015094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}