In July this year, Kundra was arrested by the Mumbai Police in another case where he was accused of distributing porn films through an app. He was granted bail in September.
Raj Kundra has said in an official statement following his arrest in a pornographic case earlier this year that he was never involved in the creation or distribution of 'pornography.'
Actress Shamita Shetty has spoken up about how she was getting trolled on social media for being locked up in the ‘Bigg Boss’ house when her family was going through the infamous case of her brother-in-law Raj Kundra.
Actress Gehana Vasisth slammed actress Sherlyn Chopra for using actress Shilpa Shetty's name and popularity for personal gain. She remarked that Chopra has made a lot of money because of Raj Kundra, Shetty’s husband, and should be grateful to him.
Actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband, Raj Kundra, who has been in police custody for the past some time, was finally granted bail on the surety of Rs 50000.
The businessman Raj Kundra in his bail plea, claimed that there is not a single iota of evidence till date with the prosecution that would connect the app 'Hotshots' with an offence under law.
Kamlesh Vaswani, an Indore-based lawyer, who had filed public interest litigation in Supreme Court in 2013 regarding the impact of pornography on children, speaks to Outlook on why porn has not been banned in India yet.
In their petitions, Kundra, husband of actor Shilpa Shetty, and Thorpe had termed their arrest as illegal as the mandatory provision of issuing notice under section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) was not followed.
Two girls alleged that they were asked to appear for a shoot for an advertisement but when they reached the place, they were threatened and forced to appear nude before the camera.
Businessman Raj Kundra’s Viaan Industries had a tie-up with London-based company Kenrin, which owns 'Hot Shots' app, allegedly involved in publishing pornographic films, police said
Shilpa Shetty told police that ‘erotica’ is not ‘porn and maintained that her husband Raj Kundra was not involved in producing pornographic content.
Raj Kundra's Viaan Industries had a tie-up with London-based company Kenrin, which owns 'Hotshots' app, allegedly involved in publishing pornographic films, a senior police official said.
From IPL match-fixing to pornography, here is a look at the controversies around Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra who was recently arrested in a porn film production case.
An FIR was registered against Kundra on February 4 at the Malwani police station after a woman approached the police and made certain allegations in her complaint, an official said.
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