EaseMyTrip Denies Deal With Mahadev Betting App

New Delhi: Travel booking platform EaseMyTrip on Thursday denied any direct or indirect association with the Mahadev betting app or any other betting platform, a day after the Enforcement Directorate searched the premises of its co-founder Nishant Pitti. In a regulatory filing, the company informed that a search was done under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

It stated that no seizure was made from the search at one of its "office premises". The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday searched the premises of EaseMyTrip's co-founder Nishant Pitti as part of fresh multi-state raids in the Mahadev online betting app linked money laundering case, officials said. The raids covered 55 locations, including in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Indore, Jaipur, Chennai and Sambalpur in Odisha, the sources said.

The latest searches are a result of some fresh evidence gathered in the case, they said. The premises and office of 39-year-old Pitti, also chairman of EaseMyTrip, in Delhi are also being covered, they said.