Raj Kundra on Saturday moved a bail application in a Mumbai court, claiming that he was being made a “scapegoat” in a pornography films case. The businessman claimed that there was “not a single evidence” against him in the supplementary chargesheet, filed by the crime branch, that proved he was actively involved in the creation of the alleged questionable content.

Kundra – who along with three others has been accused of creating pornographic films and publishing them through some apps – approached the metropolitan court for bail, saying that the investigation in the case was “practically over”. He was arrested on July 19 after being booked under relevant sections of the IPC and the Information Technology Act and is currently in judicial custody.

In the application for bail, filed through advocate Prashant Patil, Kundra 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. As per the probe agency, the HotShots app was used by the accused for uploading and streaming obscene content. The bail plea also said that there is “not a single allegation in the entire supplementary charge sheet” against the present applicant (Kundra) that he was actively involved in any of the video shootings. The application claims that it is “a sole discretion” of the individual artists to upload their contents on the app.

The contents of the complaint do not disclose any prima-facie offence against Kundra, the application added.

It further claimed that Kundra was falsely implicated in the case, that he was not named in the FIR and that he has “been dragged by” the respondent (police) into the case, it added, further stating that he was being made a “scapegoat”, for reasons “best known to” the investigating agencies. It stated that the investigation so far “clearly shows that Kundra was not involved in any offence even in a remotest way” or in creating the alleged “questionable content”. Further, the plea claimed, he is “not even related to the process of uploading or broadcasting of the alleged questionable content”.

The bail application is likely to come up for hearing on Monday.

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Shilpa Shetty Kundra uploaded a page from a novel on her Instagram story, leaving followers wondering what it meant. It is the second such post by the actress after the arrest of her husband Raj Kundra in a porn-related case. The post, uploaded on Saturday on her Stories, had a quote from author Carl Bard. It read: “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending”. The page ended with two lines: “I don’t have to be defined by things I’ve done in the past. I can make the future what I want it to be”.

As a supplementary chargesheet was filed against Raj recently, Shilpa had gone to Vaishno Devi. Earlier, in August, Shilpa had posted a quote from author Sophia Loren, which read: “Mistakes are part of dues one makes for a full life”.