India, March 5 -- The Shivaji Park police have booked film director-cum-builder Avinash Jadhav for duping actresses Varsha Usgaonkar and Mrunalini Jambhale and some others of Rs.47 lakh. Jadhav, who lives in Dombivali, had taken money from the actresses and others in several tranches in 2019 and 2020, claiming he would invest the amount in real estate projects he was executing and share the profits with them in due course, police officers familiar with the case told Hindustan Times.

Jadhav was booked on the basis of a complaint by Jambhale, 45, a resident of Dadar West. As per Jambhale's statement to the police, she has been working in the film industry for 22 years. She has acted in various television serials and films, and she came in ...