Actress Disha Patani’s father, and a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police Jagdish Singh Patani, was reportedly defrauded of ₹25 lakh by a group of scammers who promised him a senior position in a government commission, police said on Friday.

The group allegedly took ₹25 lakh from him— ₹5 lakh in cash and ₹20 lakh through transfers to three different bank accounts.

An FIR has been filed against five individuals—Shivendra Pratap Singh, Diwakar Garg, Acharya Jayaprakash (from Juna Akhara), Preeti Garg, and one unidentified person—on charges of cheating, criminal intimidation, and extortion, officials said,
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