Actress Sanjjanaa Galrani loses Rs 28 lakh in chit fund scam

The actress had invested Rs 28 lakh with the chit fund over 2 years The owners Mahesh and Nirupa closed their office and fled the city two months ago It is suspected that the duo have fled with a corpus amount of Rs 18 crore

Time and again we have been warned about the authenticity of chit funds. The growing business that it is leads many people to invest in it for the lure of profits.

Now news reports say that popular Kannada actress Sanjjanaa  Galrani has lost Rs 28 lakh in a chit fund and she has lodged a complaint with the Malleshwaram police station in this regard.

The owner Mahesh, and his wife Nirupa have been named as the accused in the case. The actress was duped into investing in it thinking of the name and trust Mahesh and his company had built up over the past few years. She invested an amount of Rs 28 lakh over a period of two years. Among others who complained, it is gathered that the duo had cheated many more people all amounting to the tune of Rs 18 crore approximately.

The  matter came to light when no one came to  collect the funds. It was then that they found that the chit fund couple had shut their office two months ago and decamped with the corpus funds. Close to six cases have already been registered against them.

Malleshwaram police have begun investigations. A word of caution: It is advisable to invest only in registered chit funds that have completed many chit funds in the past. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has an exhaustive list of registered chit funds; however, many chit funds get unlisted, so do your research before investing.