Other actors, too, were on Kareena a/c hacker's list

Police, while interrogating 26-year-old Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable Manish Kumar — who was arrested for allegedly filing a fake Income Tax return on behalf of actress Kareena Kapoor-Khan, claim that the accused had attempted to get PAN card details of at least three other actresses. Kumar planned to file fake I-T returns online using the PAN details of the actors in the hope that he would get their contact details from the I-T department's acknowledgment section.

The police interrogation also revealed that Kumar had earlier made an attempt a few months ago to meet Kareena, but failed to do so. Kumar, who says he never misses any of Kareena's movies, has several photographs of the actress on his phone, police said.

According to Assistant Police Inspector Umesh Gound, the actress, while trying to file her Income Tax (IT) returns a few months ago, found out that her e-filing account was hacked. It was brought to her notice that someone had already filed an I-T return of Rs 8 lakh in her name. Kareena's chartered accountant approached the cyber crime police office at Bandra-Kurla Complex, and lodged a complaint on October 1, 2016. Kumar, who was posted in naxal-affected Chhattisgarh, in well-versed in taxation and hasbeen filing online tax returns for people through a software.