Mumbai Crime Branch summons rapper Badshah on Aug 20 in fake followers case

Mumbai Crime Branch’s Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) summoned rapper Badshah on August 20 in connection with social media fake followers racket case.

“During the course of investigation, it has been revealed that accused persons run the racket of creating fake identities on various social media platforms viz Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, etc. and thereby creating fake performance statistics such as fake followers, fake comments, fake views etc; in order to inflate influencers’ performance statistics,” read the summon by Crime Branch.

“Whereas there are reasons to believe that you are acquainted with certain facts of the matter, and Whereas there are reasons to believe that you are repeatedly attempting to derail the ongoing investigation by not attending, and Whereas there are reasons to believe that there are discrepancies in your earlier statements and factual circumstances,