The Supreme Courtroom granted interim bail to filmmaker Vikram Bhatt and his spouse Shwetambari Bhatt, who have been arrested in a multi-crore dishonest case registered by the Rajasthan Police. A bench headed by CJI Surya Kant handed the order and scheduled the matter for listening to on February 19, ANI reported.
The couple acquired aid after the Rajasthan Excessive Courtroom earlier declined to grant them bail within the alleged Rs 30 crore fraud case. They’ve been in custody since December 7, following their arrest in Mumbai and switch to Udaipur.
About Rs 30 Crore Fraud Case
The authorized hassle for Vikram Bhatt stems from a criticism filed by Ajay Murdia, the Udaipur-based founding father of Indira IVF, who accused the filmmaker of dishonest and prison breach of belief. In keeping with the FIR, Bhatt, his spouse Shwetambari, and their associates allegedly misappropriated funds totaling Rs 30 crore that have been meant for a multi-film manufacturing challenge. The complainant claimed that the accused ready fraudulent invoices below numerous names to get funds transferreds, and allegedly diverted the cash into their private accounts for personal use.
Following this, Vikram Bhatt, his spouse, his supervisor Mehboob Ansari, and an affiliate, Dinesh Kataria, have been arrested by the Rajasthan Police in December 2025.
In response, Bhatt’s authorized crew asserted that the police acted solely on the allegations within the FIR with out verifying the supporting monetary paperwork. His lawyer, Kamlesh Dave, maintained that each transaction was clear and performed with the information of each events and dismissed the claims of “bogus payments” as baseless.
“Each cost was made within the information of each events. There have been no such faux or bogus payments. The settlement was achieved to make two movies first and one other two on rolling finance,” his lawyer had claimed.
