Police registered a case against actor Shreyas Talpade in the alleged scam of Saga Group after the court’s direction.

New Delhi. The name of film actor Shreyas Talpade has surfaced in the case of alleged bank fraud worth crores of rupees in Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh. On the instructions of the court, an FIR has been registered against 12 people including Shreyas Talpade at Bhogaon police station. The matter is said to be related to the branches of LUCC Bank operated Saga Group, which is accused of absconding with crores of rupees of investors.

According to the information, Maharashtra-based Saga Group had opened branches of LUCC Bank in many states including Uttar Pradesh in the year 2015. In various districts of Agra division including Mainpuri, these branches won the trust of the people by working like government banks. Local people invested their savings in various schemes. It is alleged that later the bank branches were suddenly closed and the employees allegedly fled after embezzling crores of rupees.

In Mainpuri itself, a fraud of more than Rs 30 crore has been claimed. 14 people including Vikas Tiwari, resident of Mohalla Misrana of Kasba Bhogaon, filed an application in the court complaining that bank director Sameer Aggarwal and his wife Sania Aggarwal did not return the invested amount. It is alleged that the depositors were threatened with being implicated in false cases if they asked for money.

The victims say that in November 2024, the bank branch suddenly closed and the operators absconded, although the documents related to the investment were still with them. Despite complaining to the police, when the report was not filed, the victims approached the court. Following the court order, police have registered a case against Sameer Aggarwal, Sania Aggarwal, RK Setty, Sanjay Mudgil, Shabab Hussain, Shreyas Talpade, Narendra Negi, Pankaj Aggarwal, Supriya, Anuj Jain, Ajay Srivastava and Arvind Tripathi.

It is being told that this bank also operated branches in Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Investors claim that the bank used to win people’s trust by calling itself under RBI, due to which a large number of people deposited their savings in it.

At present the police have registered the case and started investigation. What was the alleged role of Shreyas Talpade in this entire episode, it will be clear only after investigation. No official statement has come out yet from the actor or his representatives. The case has created a stir among the film industry and investors.