Continuing its probe into the sensational social media racket linked to creating pretend ‘followers and likes’, busted final month, the Mumbai Police has investigated no less than 20 distinguished personalities together with rapper Aditya Prateek Singh Sisodia, alias Badshah, official sources stated on Saturday.
Badshah reportedly confronted a 10-hour lengthy interrogation by the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) on Friday.
He was questioned once more on Saturday and is prone to be summoned once more on Sunday for different associated elements of the probe, stated the sources.
The developments got here after the Mumbai Police busted the sensational rip-off on July 14 by way of analytical technical-intelligence and nabbed one individual, following a grievance lodged by Bollywood playback singer Bhumi Trivedi.
Probing Trivedi’s July 11 grievance that some individuals had created a pretend Instagram profile in her title and had been approaching different celebrities within the leisure business with related gives, the CIU acquired cracking to show the mega-scam with worldwide ramifications.

The police are investigating no less than 100 Social Media Marketing (SMM) corporations and 54 portals throughout India, which supply providers of producing pretend profiles, likes, feedback, followers, and so forth, by way of pretend IDs or bots, on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and so forth, with the alleged ‘followers’ additionally getting used to create social panic by way of rumours.
Badshah issued a press release saying, “Following the summons, I have spoken to the Mumbai Police. I have aided the officials in their investigation by cooperating and carrying out the due diligence on my part. I have categorically denied all the allegations levelled against me and made it clear that I was never involved in such practices, nor do I condone them. The investigation procedure is being executed in accordance with the law and I have complete faith in the authorities, who are handling this matter. I would like to thank all those who have conveyed their concern to me. It means a lot to me.”