Baghpat police have booked actors Shreyas Talpade and Alok Nath along with 20 others in a fraud case after a cooperative society allegedly collected deposits from some 500 investors and then disappeared, officials said on Saturday.

Superintendent of Police Suraj Kumar Rai told The Indian Express that a complaint alleged the Loni Urban Multi-State Credit and Thrift Cooperative Society Limited had solicited deposits from around 500 people across western Uttar Pradesh and parts of Haryana on the promise of high returns.

“After this society took deposits from more than 500 people, the office bearers of the society ran away and did not return the money to customers. In the complaint, the informant also mentioned that two actors were advertising the firm,” Rai said.

The complainant, identif

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