Overview
- An FIR (No. 1668/2025) was registered at Bandra Police Station on October 1 after Honey Irani’s manager, Diya Bhatia, lodged a complaint.
- Driver Naresh Ramvinod Singh and petrol pump staffer Arun Amar Bahadur Singh are booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections cited by reports as 3(5), 316(2) and 318(4).
- Police and FIR summaries state the cards were swiped without fuel being dispensed, with cash handed over by the pump employee after a ₹1,000–₹1,500 cut per transaction.
- The alleged misuse stretches from April 2022 to September 2025, with the driver said to have obtained three cards from a former driver and to have confessed when confronted.
- The estimated loss is about ₹12 lakh, flagged by entries such as a 35‑litre tank showing up to 62 litres and purchases for a car sold years earlier, with investigation and recovery efforts ongoing as reports differ on whether an arrest was made.