Businessman Raj Kundra, husband of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, together with models-actresses Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Pandey, have been granted anticipatory bail on Tuesday by the Supreme Court within the porn movies case. They have been charged for allegedly distributing pornographic movies.
A bench comprising Justices K.M. Joseph and B.V. Nagarathna mentioned that they’ve heard the counsel of the respective events and so they got here to a choice that the petitioners will be granted anticipatory bail. Senior advocate R. Basant, representing one of many petitioners, had contended that the a cost sheet has been filed and the accused had been cooperating with the police within the investigation.
Earlier, Raj Kundra was given interim safety from arrest from the apex courtroom, the place co-accused Poonam and Sherlyn had been additionally named. Kundra had denied the allegations and claimed that he was not linked to the content material creation, publication or transmission of alleged unlawful movies.
As per the Cyber Police’s charge-sheet filed earlier than a courtroom beforehand, Kundra together with Sherlyn, Poonam, a movie producer Meeta Jhunjhunwala and a cameraman Raju Dubey had been accused of allegedly taking pictures the obscene or porn movies in two suburban five-star inns, which had been distributed by OTT platforms for financial good points.
Poonam has additionally been accused of growing her personal cellular App, The Poonam Pandey, getting her obscene movies shot, importing and circulating them with the assistance of Kundra’s firm. According to the Cyber Police, Dubey had additionally shot Chopra’s movies, whereas Jhunjhunwala is accused of aiding and abetting by scripting and directing tales for her (Chopra).
The Cyber Police has claimed that Kundra’s firm “aided and abetted the crime” because it derived monetary advantages from all the opposite co-accused although conscious that such issues are unlawful, whilst they’re looking out for another “missing” fashions who acted within the porn movies or net collection.
With IANS Inputs
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