New Delhi: Bigg Boss winner Elvish Yadav finds himself in trouble once again. According to reports on Saturday, the Enforcement Directorate has filed a money laundering case against YouTuber Siddharth Yadav, also known as Elvish Yadav, and a few other people on suspicion of using snake venom as a recreational drug during parties he threw.
This development comes after an FIR and 1200 page chargesheet was filed by Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida) district police last month. The case has been registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
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Noida Police arrested the Bigg Boss winner on March 17 in connection with the snake venom case, who was later released on bail. According to media reports, the 26-year-old YouTuber was booked under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, Wildlife Protection Act, and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
On November 3 last year, an FIR was lodged at Noida’s Sector 49 Police Station after a complaint was raised by an animal rights activists who named 5 more people in (PFA) apart from Elvish Yadav.
All of the other five accused in the case were snake charmers who were arrested in November and were later let out on bail by a local court. The police seized nine snakes, including five cobras from their possession along with 20 ml of suspected snake venom.
The probe agency will soon investigate the alleged financial transactions associated with the supply of snake venom at various locations including big hotels, clubs, resorts, and farmhouses in Delhi-NCR. Elvish will soon be questioned by the ED.
Previously, Yadav was placed under 14 days of judicial prison after his arrest on March 17. Five days later, a municipal court in Gautam Buddh Nagar granted him bail.
Given the substantial sum of money involved in the racket, a top ED officer revealed that the agency’s Lucknow unit has filed a complaint against Yadav and others under various provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in connection with the snake venom incident. He added Yadav and other individuals connected to the previous case would probably be questioned by the team.
The chargesheet details the smuggling of snakes and the usage of their venom at the gatherings. News outlets had stated that a venomous snake and 20 millilitres of a krait snake’s venom were found at the party site, indicating that Yadav had contact with snake handlers.
Yadav had contested the accusations against him, calling them ‘baseless and fake’, but later on, the police dismissed the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case against him, claiming that their side had made a ‘mistake’.
