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Mumbai: A senior police official said that the father of a man named as an accused in the Mahadev betting app scam was found dead under suspicious conditions at a village in Durg district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. He was 62-year-old.
The deceased, identified as Sushil Das, who was missing since the last two days, was found in a well at Achhoti village under Anda police station limits in the afternoon. The deceased was the father of Asim Das, an alleged cash courier in the case arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
According to the prime investigations, Durg Senior Superintendent of Police Ram Gopal Garg said that it looks like a case of suicide. He added that the senior Das, who was working as a security guard in a private company, was missing since Sunday evening.
The official said that the exact reason behind the death was yet to be ascertained. He also said that the body was sent for post-mortem examination and further investigation was underway.
On November 3, Asim Das and another accused, constable Bhim Singh Yadav, were arrested by the ED. The ED claimed that a forensic analysis and a statement made by Asim Das had led to startling allegations that Mahadev betting app promoters have paid about Rs 508 crore to outgoing Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel so far.
Baghel had stoutly denied the allegations and accused the BJP of misusing the ED.Asim Das was arrested by the ED in Raipur after it claimed to have recovered Rs 5.39 crore in cash from him. According to the ED, he was allegedly sent by the app promoters from the UAE especially, to deliver a large amount of cash for electioneering expenses of the ruling Congress Party.
In a statement issued before the two-phase polling on November 7 and 17, the ED had said, “Asim Das has admitted that the seized funds were arranged by the Mahadev app promoters to be delivered to one politician ‘Baghel’ for upcoming election expenses in the state of Chhattisgarh.” However, on November 25, Das submitted before a special PMLA court that he had been framed up as part of a conspiracy and he had never delivered cash to politicians.
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