Mumbai: Actors Shreyas Talpade and Alok Nath have been booked for cheating and criminal breach of trust.
The actors have been booked under Sections 316(2), 318(2), and 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for criminal breach of trust, cheating, and deceptive transfer of property, reported The Print.
According to the FIR, registered at Haryana’s Murthal police station on January 22, Shreyas and Alok are among 13 persons accused in the case.
“The main complaint is against the society accused of duping people by luring them to invest. We will investigate any role ascribed to Shreyas Talpade and Alok Nath,” Murthal additional commissioner of police (ACP), Ajeet Singh said.
Complainant Vipul Antil, a resident of Sonipat, alleged that the Human Welfare Credit Cooperative Society, registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Society Act, 2002, in Indore, is operative in multiple states, including Haryana, since September 2016.
Antil also alleged that the society proposed fixed deposit (FD) and recurring deposit (RD) schemes, promising high returns.
However, it was later found that the society was deceiving the investors by delaying payments of the matured amount.
“First, the incentives of agents were stopped. Then payment of the matured amount of investors also started getting delayed. Soon, the owners switched off the phones, and the offices were locked,” alleged the complainant.
When investors and agents reached out to those in contact with the society, they were given false hopes, alleged the complainant.
The complainant told The Print that he had deposited ₹33 lakh as an FD with the society, and his brother Amit had deposited over ₹4 crore of investors’ funds, which includes funds from his family and extended family members and the investors are now seeking their money back.
