Enforcement Directorate on Thursday took motion in opposition to YouTuber Elvish Yadav and singer Rahul Yadav often known as Fazilpuria. The ED has seized properties of Elvish Yadav and Fazilpuria in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana together with a few of their financial institution accounts.
In keeping with sources, the connected properties are price a number of crores. The ED had lately recorded Yadav and Fazilpuria’s statements and had additionally interrogated them extensively.
Bigg Boss OTT winner Elvish Yadav was arrested by Noida Police in a case associated to the unlawful supplying snake venom. The ED had filed a cash laundering case in opposition to him given the numerous sum of money concerned within the snake venom racket.
An FIR was additionally registered him for thrashing one other YouTuber Sagar Thakur alias Maxtern.
In July this 12 months, Elvish Yadav was summoned by the ED in UP’s Lucknow headquarters for questioning. He was reportedly grilled for seven hours for the PMLA case associated to the snake venom/rave celebration case filed in opposition to him. He was questioned for his alleged hyperlinks with individuals who made the snakes and snake venom accessible, and the monetary transactions linked with them.
In November 2023, the well-known YouTuber together with 5 others had been booked below the the Wildlife (Safety) Act and Part 120 B (legal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Sector 49 police station for allegedly supplying snake venom to celebration revellers, allegedly for leisure use.
Thereafter, Elvish Yadav was arrested on March 17 by the Noida Police in reference to the case. He was later despatched to a 14-day judicial custody. In April, 1200-page chargesheet was filed, oulining the fees of snake smuggling and drug possession.
The matter was delivered to gentle after a Individuals For Animals NGO welfare officer filed a criticism concerning this. He had accused Elvish of utilizing a number of reside snakes in a video shoot final 12 months at Earth Iconic mall in Gurgaon sector 71.
Singer Rahul Fazilpuria was additionally questioned in the identical snake case by the ED. He was additionally discovered to have used snakes in considered one of his songs. They had been booked below sections of Cruelty to Wildlife Act and IPC Part 294 (obscenity in public place).
The prosecution advised the courtroom that 20 ml snake venom and 9 reside snakes together with 5 cobras, one python, one rat snake, had been recovered by the police and argued that they had been sufficient to show Elvish’s involvement on this case. He has all the time denied the fees in opposition to him.