Overview
- Officers picked up the filmmaker from a residence on Mumbai’s Yaari Road in an operation involving both Rajasthan and Mumbai Police.
- The FIR, registered at Bhupalpura police station in Udaipur, alleges Bhatt and associates induced Dr Ajay Murdia to invest over ₹30 crore in a proposed biopic.
- Investigators say the complainant was promised potential returns of up to ₹200 crore from the project intended to honor his late wife.
- Udaipur Police issued a lookout notice a week earlier for eight accused, including Bhatt, his wife Shwetambari Bhatt, and their daughter, barring foreign travel and ordering appearance by December 8.
- Bhatt has rejected the allegations as misleading, stating that the police have been misguided.