Overview

• Delhi Police records show that Jalaluddin alias Sameer, a Dubai-based panel operator for the Mahadev Online Book app, paid Yadav and his associate Rs 16 lakh via hawala for the Rohini kidnapping and extortion plot.
• All three accused—Yadav, Abdullah Khan and Jalaluddin—are currently out on bail as the Special Cell prepares a supplementary chargesheet in the December 2023 Rohini FIR.
• The Enforcement Directorate has filed two chargesheets in Chhattisgarh court, alleging the Mahadev betting racket laundered around ₹6,000 crore through illegal online betting.
• Investigators plan to share new evidence of Yadav’s ties to the Dubai-linked scheme with the Enforcement Directorate as part of a coordinated transnational crime probe.
• Yadav’s name also remains on a U.S. indictment accusing him of co-conspiracy in the 2023 assassination plot against Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.