FIR Against Alok Nath, Shreyas Talpade For 'Cheating' Investors Of Rs 9 Crore
The FIR filed at Gomti Nagar Police Station in Lucknow also names members of a Credit Cooperative Society.
An FIR has been registered against actors Alok Nath and Shreyas Talpade for allegedly cheating 45 investors of Rs 9 crore. The FIR filed at Gomti Nagar Police Station in Lucknow also names members of a Credit Cooperative Society.
Recently, an FIR was filed against the actors in Haryana on a complaint of cheating and breach of trust against a society in Sonipat. It has been alleged that Alok Nath and Shreyas Talpade were the brand ambassadors of the cooperative society and victims get lured to invest because of such personalities, as per news agency PTI.
The FIR was registered on January 22 evening under sections 316 (2), 318 (2) and 318 (4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, pertaining to offences including criminal breach of trust and cheating, on the complaint of Sonipat resident Vipul Antil (37).
The Scheme Assured Better Returns To Investors
The complaint alleged the society assured investors that their money would be safe and the maturity amount would be paid on time and claimed they did so initially for a few years.
Antil alleged that both actors "promoted the Human Welfare Credit Cooperative Society Ltd, as brand ambassadors".
According to the complaint, the society was formed under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act and it started functioning in many states including Haryana on September 16, 2016.
"Its main functions were to provide savings schemes like fixed deposit and recurring deposit. It presented itself as a trustworthy and safe financial institution and carried out massive publicity to attract and convince investors…the model was based on multi-level marketing, which rapidly increased the number of investors," it stated.
It further alleged that in 2023, the payment of maturity amount to the investors started getting disrupted and the "officials of the society kept trying to justify the delay by making the excuse of ‘system upgradation".
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