India, Nov. 15 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday searched 33 locations across six States over the past few days in the Mahadev Online Book illegal betting app case, dismantling active betting and gambling panels and seizing digital devices, mobile phones, and documents pointing to the use of mule bank accounts and hawala channels.

The CBI teams searched locations linked to the platform's panel operators in cities including Amritsar, Delhi, Nagaur, Dholpur, Bhopal, Raipur, Durg, Indore, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Mumbai, and Nagpur. They found and shut down several live panels at these sites. The seized evidence shows that operators collected betting money using bank accounts opened in other people's names or accou...