Police in India have arrested a gang involved in robbing Russian bookies by holding a fake 'Indian Premier League' (IPL).


 According to the French news agency AFP, at the time of the police raids, the fake IPL in the Indian state of Gujarat had entered the quarter-final stage.


 According to the police, the annual IPL ended in May but the arrested accused managed to hold a fake IPL without any hindrance and for this purpose they also rented a farm in Gujarat. Was


 Inspector Bhavesh Rathore told reporters that a group of Nosrabazis turned the form into a ground and built a cricket pitch and arranged lights to make it look real.


"In addition, the accused installed cameras in the ground and made scoreboards with the help of computer graphics so that the matches could be streamed live," he added.


 The group hired laborers and unemployed people to play the role of players on the instructions of "Mastermind in Russia" who were paid Rs. 400 per match.


 According to the police, the players wore jerseys of different teams including Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans during the matches to make the fake IPL look real. These fake matches were being broadcast on a YouTube channel called 'IPL'.


 The group also set up a "Telegram" channel to deceive Russian bookies into giving them a chance to invest.


 "When we acted on the information we received, the quarter-final match was being played," police officer Bhavesh Rathore told reporters.


 He further said that the accused had also received the first installment of Rs 300,000 in gambling money from Russian bookies.


"The day I return to India will be the last day of my life"


A poster of Indian filmmaker Lena Mani Makalai's film 'Kali' has sparked a new controversy in the country and she is receiving death threats on social media because of the poster of the film.


 Yesterday, Lena shared screenshots of the threats she received on social media in several tweets. Nasty language has been used for them in threatening messages.


According to a screenshot shared by a Canadian-based filmmaker, one person told him, "Never try to come to India or it will be the last day of your life on this earth."


 Sharing screen shots of threatening messages, Lena wrote, "It is not a crime for an actor to dress up as a goddess and smoke for a movie."


 "What the people of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are doing to democracy is an organized crime," he added.