A special CBI court in Raipur on Thursday, November 12, remanded Sourabh Chandrakar, the alleged promoter of the Mahadev Online Book betting syndicate, to judicial custody until November 19, after his eight days in CBI custody came to an end. Chandrakar was produced again before Special Judge (CBI) Manoj Kumar Singh Thakur, and the CBI did not ask for further custody, his lawyer Tushar Giri told reporters, according to the Press Trust of India. All charges against Chandrakar are allegations that are yet to be tested in court.

Source: PTI, via AskSpinner (updated Nov 12, 2026)

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is investigating the alleged money-laundering side of the case, had asked the CBI court to execute a non-bailable warrant issued earlier against Chandrakar. The court dismissed that application, Giri said. ED counsel Sourabh Kumar Pande said the agency would now apply to the court hearing cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) for Chandrakar's arrest in the money-laundering case, PTI reported.

Source: PTI, via AskSpinner (updated Nov 12, 2026)

Nov 19Judicial custody ordered until
8 daysCBI custody that ended on Nov 12
2CBI cases in which chargesheets are filed

How the case reached this point

Thursday's order is the latest development in a case this desk has followed step by step: the CBI brought Chandrakar back to India on November 1 after his extradition from Oman, where the Royal Oman Police had detained him on an Interpol Red Corner Notice; a Delhi court then granted a two-day transit remand, and on November 4 the Raipur court gave the CBI eight days of custody, with permission to take him to Delhi for questioning. The CBI has said Chandrakar is wanted in two cases in which chargesheets have already been filed, while the ED has filed a prosecution complaint against him in its separate case. The CBI took over the Mahadev Online Book cases at the request of the Chhattisgarh government.

Source: PTI / CBI statements, earlier reporting

A PTI news alert carried by DailyWorld on Thursday afternoon also confirmed the Raipur court's order sending Chandrakar to judicial custody till November 19. What happens next turns on the ED's proposed move before the PMLA court and on Chandrakar's next production on November 19.

Source: PTI news alert via DailyWorld, Nov 12, 2026