Mumbai, July 19, 2021-
In a major swoop, the Mumbai Police late on Monday arrested businessman Raj Kundra — the husband of Bollywood actor and model Shilpa Shetty — for allegedly making pornographic content and publishing them through mobile applications.
The shocking action was based on a case registered by the police in February this year, Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale said in a late-night statement.
Thereafter, Kundra, a British-Indian businessman, was being investigated by the Crime Branch-CID of Mumbai Police.
Raj Kundra has been booked under sections 420 (cheating), 34 (common intention), 292 and 293 (related to obscene and indecent advertisements and displays) of IPC besides relevant sections of the IT Act and the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act.
Following this, the property cell raided a bungalow in the Madh area, Malad (West), and arrested five people in the case which led to Kundra’s arrest on Monday.
Kundra appeared before the property cell of Mumbai Police’s Crime Branch on Monday and was later arrested in the case. He was taken for medical examination at JJ Hospital early on Tuesday and then to the Mumbai Police commissioner’s office.
“There was a case registered with the Crime Branch Mumbai in Feb 2021 about the creation of pornographic films and publishing them through some Apps. We’ve arrested Mr Raj Kundra in this case on 19/7/21 as he appears to be the key conspirator of this. We have sufficient evidence regarding this,” the commissioner said in a statement.
The racket of making and publishing pornographic content with Kundra’s involvement was first busted in February this year when a woman approached the Mumbai Police against the businessman and alleged involvement in luring young women and men on the pretext of offering roles into web series and short films. They allegedly forced them to act in pornographic films instead.
The arrested include Rowa Khan alias Yasmeen who claimed to be a producer-director; photographer Monu Sharma, and creative director Pratibha Nalawade along with and two actors, Arish Shaikh and Bhanu Thakur.
After the FIR was registered, the case was transferred to the Crime Branch. Officials said they registered a similar case previously.
“We will probe the Raj Kundra case and find out if there is any link between this and pornography cases which we had registered earlier,” the official said. (Agency)
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