The State Investigation Team (SIT) led by DCP (Detection) Nandkumar Thakur has arrested a 29-year-old man in the fake follower's racket. The accused identified as Kashif Mansoor, a civil engineer by profession was arrested from Jogeshwari (W).

According to police officials, the accused owns and operates a portal that provides followers, views, subscribers, likes, etc to profiles on various social medial platforms such as Instagram, Youtube, and Facebook among others. "The accused person has so far completed approx 25,000 orders resulting in approx 2.3 Crores of followers/views/likes etc," a police officer said.