Raj Kundra Case: Employees turn witnesses, asked to delete clips

Raj Kundra, who is currently in police custody in an alleged pornographic content production and distribution case, seems to have landed in further trouble. Four of his employees have turned witnesses in the case including production and distribution of pornographic films, told police that they were asked to erase clips, said sources. The employees also said as per the sources that the clips were uploaded from “HotShots”, the businessman’s controversial app that the police believed was utilized for streaming pornography. 

The application, said police, was removed from the Google Play Store for Android phones and Apple’s App Store, so the accused “enacted on Plan B” and launched another application, Bollyfame. An employee of the Intelligence Bureau or IB has found links with another accused Yash Thakur, who is on the run. Sources said that Yash Thakur becomes a close acquaintance with the IB official and then got him to chip away at the beginning of the application to stream the clips.

Raj Kundra, 45, was arrested on July 19 by Mumbai Police. A magistrate’s court sent him into police custody till July 27. A day after his arrest, a lot of data was deleted from the records, the police said. He had got the app registered in his wife’s name, said police sources. He objected when Yash Thakur started uploading porn clips on the app against his earlier proposal, which was that it will only stream award-winning short films, the sources said. 

Raj Kundra has said the videos might be described as “lascivious” but do not show “explicit sexual acts”. His wife Shilpa Shetty had told the police that she was unaware of the exact nature of the content on the mobile app via which Raj Kundra is accused of streaming pornographic content. She also underlined the difference between ‘erotica’ and ‘pornography’, and said her husband was not engaged with delivering obscene content.

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Raj Kundra’s lawyer, Abad Ponda, has objected to the content being classified as pornography, contending that comparable material is accessible on OTT stages like Netflix. Maharashtra BJP leader Ashish Shelar has claimed that the state government is intentionally being slow in making a move for the situation. Mr Shelar has written to Amit Shah requesting a multi-ministerial task force in the matter. 

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