A case under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code was registered against her at the Vijay Nagar police station yesterday based on the directive a lower court, a police sub inspector said.
He said that further investigations in the case are on.
An Indore-based film producer, Mohammad Ali had petitioned the court alleging that Himani, 54, had entered into an agreement with him to act in his two of his movies, on March 22, 2011, the police sub inspector said, adding that the actress had taken Rs 5 lakh as advance from Ali.
Based on Ali's complaint, on March 22, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Santosh Prasad Shukla directed Vijay Nagar police station to register a case and get back to it with an investigation report.