Mumbai Police has warned rapper-singer Badshah for not cooperating in the alleged fake followers scam and called him again to record his statement on August 20. Badshah was questioned by Mumbai Crime Branch concerning fake social media followers scam earlier this month. and thereby creating fake performance statistics such as fake followers, fake comments, fake views etc; in order to inflate influencers' performance statistics," the Crime Branch said in the summon. Mumbai Police launched a probe into the fake followers scam after singer Bhoomi Trivedi found an imposter on social media and lodged a complaint against the fake profile created. "SIT comprising Crime Branch along with Cyber Cell has been formed which will help in investigating this case," he had said.

Source: dna August 18, 2020 18:11 UTC