Dehradun, Nov. 29 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday registered a first information report (FIR) against 46 people, including Bollywood actors Shreyas Talpade and Alok Nath, in a cooperative fraud case with proceeds amounting to over hundreds of crores, officers said. According to senior officers in the know, the investigation was spurred by a directive of the state high court, given in September while it was hearing two clubbed public interest litigations filed in March by a resident of Rishikesh and a group of Dehradun residents, concerning a batch of 19 FIRs registered against agents and office-bearers of the cooperative society, Loni Urban Multi-State Credit & Thrift Co-operative Society (LUCC). The FIRs were filed based on complaints that the society allegedly invited public deposits through its 35 branches across the state, offering attractive returns and commissions on collections. Local managers and agents allegedly targeted unemployed people, homemakers and retired people, and convinced them to rope their acquaintances and relatives in, said officers. The key accused named in the CBI FIR was Sameer Aggarwal, based in Mumbai, apart from local agents of the society such as Girish Chand Singh Bisht, Urmila Bisht, Jagmohan Bisht, Anita Negi, based in Dehradun.It also listed actors Shreyas Talpade and Alok Nath, as they were brand ambassadors of the society, said officers. It was registered under relevant sections of the IPC, BNS and the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Disputes Act and Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act on Thursday at Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of CBI in Dehradun, they added. Actor Alok Nath, when contacted on Friday, said the charges against him were baseless and false, adding that the law will take its own course. Shreyas Talpade did not respond to HT's repeated requests for comment....