Actors Rana Daggubati, Prakash Raj amongst others booked for ‘selling’ betting apps

He was even influenced by such betting functions, and was about to deposit in a single such betting/playing/on line casino web site, however resulting from his household’s phrase of warning, he didn’t accomplish that, the complainant stated.

The FIR stated the complainant, whereas utilizing his social media functions, got here throughout a number of celebrities and influencers who’re actively selling a number of of the “unlawful” betting apps, web sites and different platforms that need to be downloaded on cell phones and used for betting and playing.

The complainant alleged the influencers and celebrities who’re selling these apps and web sites are doing so by accepting big sums of cash as fee, and remuneration. These platforms are encouraging public, particularly individuals, who’re in dire want of cash, to speculate their hard-earned and household cash into these apps/web sites and slowly get hooked on them, resulting in monetary misery, he claimed.

The complainant named the celebrities and influencers who he alleged had been selling the “unlawful” betting, playing and on line casino functions/web sites.

These platforms are actively selling their apps/web sites via social media ads with the assistance of celebrities and influencers, thereby reaching the target market routinely with out even the customers truly trying to find it, he stated.

Hundreds of lakhs of rupees are concerned in these unlawful platforms, he alleged and requested the police to take vital motion on the administration of those platforms in addition to on the people who had been illegally selling these platforms.