Film producer Shyam Sunder Dey has accused television actors Puja Banerjee and Kunal Verma of kidnapping and confining him in Goa and extorting ₹23 lakh from him. Dey's wife Malabika has filed a police complaint and the two actors have now been booked. A few days ago, Kunal and Puja had claimed they lost all their savings to financial fraud.