More than a year after the city police busted a racket to inflate social media followers of celebrities and influential persons, the Crime Branch has filed a 446-page chargesheet, saying singer Aditya Prateek Singh aka Badshah paid Rs 74 lakh to get 72 lakh views for a video. One of the accused has said that there was nothing illegal in what he did.

The charge sheet has 11 panchs, 25 witnesses and names five accused four of whom were arrested. Badshah and Koena Mitra have been shown as witnesses apart from those of officials of Chtrbox, Qyuki Digital Media Pvt Ltd and Sony Music India. The case came to light in July 2020 after singer Bhumi Trivedi filed a complaint with the Mumbai police saying that some unknown person had created a fake ID in her name on Instagram. The case was transferred to the Crime Intelligence Unit led by now-dismissed cop Sachin Waze.