The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued summons to Bollywood actress Urvashi Rautela and former TMC MP Mimi Chakrabarty as part of its probe into online betting platform 1xBet, which is being investigated for alleged money laundering.
Urvashi is required to appear at the ED headquarters in Delhi on September 16 and Mimi on September 15.
The probe, part of a wider crackdown on illegal betting platforms and their celebrity promoters, has already involved several high-profile names.
Earlier this month, former cricketer Shikhar Dhawan was summoned, while in August, former India cricketer Suresh Raina also appeared before the agency.
The Union government has banned real-money online gaming by bringing a legislation recently.
According to estimates by market analysis firms and probe agencies, there are about 22 crore Indian users in various such online betting apps out of which half (about 11 crore) are regular users.
The online betting app market in India is worth over $100 billion which is growing at the rate of 30%, according to experts.
The government recently told Parliament that it has issued 1,524 orders from 2022 till June 2025 to block online betting and gambling platforms.
