The
Mumbai
crime
branch
has
lodged
a
fresh
FIR
in
connection
with
a
pornography
case
and
named
producers
of
businessman
Raj
Kundra's
company
as
well
as
actress
Gehana
Vashishth
in
the
new
case,
a
police
official
said
on
Wednesday.
The
case
was
registered
by
the
crime
branch's
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
app.
The
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
added.
Raj
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
apps.
The
45-year-old
businessman,
who
was
on
Tuesday
remanded
in
judicial
custody
for
14
days,
earned
at
least
Rs
1.17
crore
between
August
and
December
last
year
from
his
business
of
production
and
online
distribution
of
porn
films,
the
police
had
told
a
magistrate's
court.
Kundra
has
contended
that
the
films
made
by
him,
which
the
police
claimed
to
be
pornographic,
did
not
depict
direct
or
explicit
sexual
acts.
After
Kundra's
arrest,Vashishth,
who
worked
in
three
films
produced
for
Kundra's
app,
had
in
a
video
said
erotic
content
was
different
from
pornography.
Vashishth,
who
was
arrested
in
February
this
year
and
later
granted
bail,
and
two
others
were
recently
summoned
by
the
crime
branch's
property
cell.
Before
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
said.
The
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
said.
The
Mumbai
crime
branch
had
started
investigation
into
the
case
after
some
victims
approached
the
Malwani
police
station
in
February
2021,
he
said.
During
the
investigation,
it
came
to
light
that
some
small-time
artistes
were
lured
by
giving
them
break
in
some
web
series
or
short
stories,
he
had
said.
These
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
said.
During
the
investigation,
it
also
came
to
light
that
there
were
many
porn-related
apps
which
were
operating
in
the
cyber
world,
he
said.
The
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
Kundra's
firm),
he
had
said.
At
least
11
persons
have
been
arrested
so
far
in
the
case,
according
to
the
police.