Gehana Vasisth at Quilla court in Fort on Wednesday. Pics/Suresh Karkera

S Ahmed Ali (THE TIMES OF INDIA; February 13, 2021)

Mumbai: A celebrity businessman, husband of a well-known actor, is under the scanner in the porn video racket being probed by city police after a model alleged he forced her to pose in the nude for a video shot by his production house, reports S Ahmed Ali. Police are trying to verify the details.

Meanwhile, police have registered a fresh case of gangrape and wrongful confinement against arrested model-actor Gehena Vasisth and three others after a 24-year old model alleged she was forced to engage in sexual acts with three men for a video. This is the fourth such complaint lodged by models in the case. Vasisth, 3 men booked for ‘rape’ in porn racket case

In the complaint against the actor’s husband, the crime branch is in the process of verifying the details. “We are still recording the complaint and are in the process of verifying the authenticity of the model’s complaint before registering a case,” said a senior official.

On Tuesday, police had arrested Umesh Kamat, a former employee of the celebrity businessman.

Kamat, who represents UK-based production house Kenrin, is accused of uploading at least seven to eight “porn and obscene” videos shot by Vasisth on a social media app for monetary consideration.

In the fresh FIR against Vasisth, another model alleged on January 11 she was offered a role in a web series. She said the script did not mention the role required her to act out a sex scene with three men. She told the police she was kept in the dark till the last moment and forced to indulge in sexual acts with the three men in Green Park bungalow at Madh Island.

“Based on her complaint, we have registered an offence and have booked Vasisth and three unidentified men for outraging the modesty of a woman, rape and an obscene act. Further investigation is on,” said a Malvani police officer.

The investigation has so far revealed that one of the accused, Yasmin Rowa Khan, and her team would allegedly shoot porn movies in the Madh Island bungalow and these would be uploaded on various mobile apps as well Vasisth’s website GV Studios.

The case came to light after the crime branch raided a Madh Island bungalow last week and caught five persons, including Khan, “red-handed” while shooting a porn movie.