Overview

• Officials said the alerts were issued due to the couple’s frequent international travel and shared with immigration to prevent departure during the investigation.
• Businessman Deepak Kothari alleges ₹60.48 crore routed to Best Deal TV in 2015 under a loan-cum-investment arrangement was misused for personal expenses.
• An FIR registered in August at Juhu police station was transferred to the EOW, booking the case under IPC sections 403, 406 and 34.
• Investigators are tracing bank and company records, have summoned the firm’s auditor, and may call Shetty and Kundra to record their statements.
• The accused deny wrongdoing, term the issue an old commercial matter addressed at the NCLT, and say auditors have supplied supporting documents to police.