The Rajasthan police on November 18 arrested the co-producer of Vikram Bhatt’s production team, and a vendor from Bombay in connection with a Rs. 30-crore fraud case filed against Bhatt and others by Dr. Ajay Murdia, owner of the Indira IVF clinic chain in India. Both the accused, Mehboob Ansari and Sandeep Trilobhan, were brought to Udaipur on November 18 and presented before the court which remanded them to police custody till November 23. The police said, the other accused involved in the case would be arrested soon.
Dr. Murdia (on right in display picture above) filed a lawsuit against Vikram Bhatt (on left in photograph above), his wife, Shwetambhari Bhatt, his daughter, Krishna Bhatt, Dinesh Kataria (a resident of Udaipur), Mudit Buttan (of Delhi), Gangeshwarlal Srivastava, and Ashok Dubey (general secretary of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees).
According to the lawsuit, the aforementioned individuals lured the doctor with a proposal of his biopic by promising him potential profits of Rs. 200 crore, and then swindled him of Rs. 30 crore taken in instalments to make the film.