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A Lahore court approved on Tuesday a four-day extension in the physical remand of Saadur Rehman, the YouTuber popularly known as Ducky Bhai, in a case of allegedly promoting gambling apps on social media.

Ducky Bhai was arrested early Sunday at the Lahore airport and presented before a judicial magistrate who approved his two-day physical remand. He is currently in the custody of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA).

Investigating Officer Shoaib Riaz had requested a 28-day remand, alleging that the suspect was a member of an international gambling racket.

The court heard the arguments and extended the physical remand of the suspect till August 23.

The case was registered by the state through the NCCIA Lahore at midnight on August 17 under sections 13 (Electronic Forgery), 14 (Electronic Fraud), 25 (Spamming) and 26 (Spoofing) of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 as well as sections 294 B (Offering prize in connection with trade) and 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducting delivery of property) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The case is related to an inquiry dated June 13 and registered on the “receipt of information from reliable source(s)” that some YouTubers and social media influencers were promoting gambling and betting applications to the general public via their social media accounts for their own monetary benefits.

The FIR claimed that the public invested their hard earned money in these applications due to this and suffered financial losses. It accused Rehman of promoting different gambling and betting applications, including Binomo, 1xBet, Bet 365, B9 Game etc through his Youtube channel.

A total of 27 video links from his account that purportedly promoted these applications were included in the FIR, several of which are no longer available to view.