Sukesh Chandrasekhar con saga gets bigger: Sara Ali Khan, Janhvi Kapoor were also targeted

Names of more A-list B-town actors have come up in the multi-starrer Sukesh Chandrashekhar con saga.

After Jacqueline Fernandez and Nora Fatehi, the Enforcement Directorate has claimed that Sukesh approached actors Sara Ali Khan, Janhvi Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar with expensive gifts.

The supplementary chargesheet filed by the ED in the 200 crore extortion case against Sukesh, has stated that he even met several models and actors pretending to be a business tycoon inside Delhi's Tihar jail in 2018.

New details have emerged after an alleged associate of the conman, Pinky Irani, was arrested last December. According to the ED, Irani projected Sukesh as a business tycoon and also took some models to Tihar to meet him.

The agency, in this prosecution complaint, has attached replies sent to it by Bollywood actors Bhumi Pednekar, Sara Ali Khan and Janhvi Kapoor, who were similarly approached by Chandrasekhar allegedly through Irani.

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According to the charge sheet, Bhumi Pednekar told the agency early this year that Irani messaged her saying she was the "vice president (of) HR News Express Post and informed her that their group chairman (Chandrasekhar) is a fan of hers and wanted to speak with her about a huge project and also wanted to gift her a car." Pednekar maintained that she did not receive any gifts.

Sara Ali Khan told the ED that Irani had tried to contact her and someone in the name of "Suraj Reddy" insisted on gifting her a car, but she refused. However, on insisting, Sara said that she agreed to a box of chocolates and also received a Franck Muller watch.

Janhvi Kapoor told ED that while she was not approached by Chandrasekhar or Irani, she was contacted by a lady who identified herself as Leena. Janhvi inaugurated her salon and got a Christian Dior luxury bag and a professional fee of ₹ 18.94 lakh in her bank account.