Porn films case: FIR names producers of Kundra's firm, actress Gehana Vashishth

The Mumbai crime branch has lodged a fresh FIR in connection with a pornography case and named producers of businessman Raj Kundras company as well as actress Gehana Vashishth in the new case a police official said on WednesdayThe case was registered by the crime branchs property cell at Malwani police station on Tuesday after an actress approached the police and alleged she was forced to shoot for a pornographic film for the HotShots appThe First Information Report FIR was registered under various Indian Penal Code IPC sections including 420 cheating 392 punishment for robbery 393 attempt to commit robbery and provisions of the Indecent Representation of Women Prohibition Act and the Information Technology Act the official addedRaj Kundra husband of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was arrested by the crime branch on July 19 in a case related to alleged creation of pornographic films and publishing them through appsThe 45yearold businessman who was on Tuesday remanded in judicial custody for 14 days earned at least Rs 117 crore between August and December last year from his business of production and online distribution of porn films the police had told a magistrates courtKundra has contended that the films made by him which the police claimed to be pornographic did not depict direct or explicit sexual actsAfter Kundras arrest Vashishth who worked in three films produced for Kundras app had in a video said erotic content was different from pornographyVashishth who was arrested in February this year and later granted bail and two others were recently summoned by the crime branchs property cellBefore the Mumbai crime branch took over the case there was a complaint with the Maharashtra cyber department about the porn films racket a senior police official earlier saidThe Malwani police had filed FIRs on the basis of complaints received from two women while another one woman had submitted a complaint at the Lonavla police station around 120 km from Mumbai he saidThe Mumbai crime branch had started investigation into the case after some victims approached the Malwani police station in February 2021 he saidDuring the investigation it came to light that some smalltime artistes were lured by giving them break in some web series or short stories he had saidThese actors were called for auditions and were asked to give bold scenes which later turned out to be semi nude or nude scenes which were against the wishes of the actors the official had saidDuring the investigation it also came to light that there were many pornrelated apps which were operating in the cyber world he saidThe police then arrested producer Roma Khan her husband actress Gehana Vashishth director Tanveer Hashmi and Umesh Kamath who used to look after India operations of Kundras firm he had said At least 11 persons have been arrested so far in the case according to the policeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever