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Raj Kundra gets interim relief from arrest in obscenity case; Police to record Sherlyn Chopra's statement
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THE TIMES OF INDIA (July 27, 2021)
Mumbai: A sessions court on Monday adjourned hearing in the anticipatory bail plea moved by businessman Raj Kundra in an obscenity case being investigated by the cyber crime police. The court extended the interim relief from arrest in the case.
In November 2020, police had registered an FIR against 14 OTT platforms and web portals for obscene content based on a complaint by a retired customs official. Summons were sent to the heads of these platforms and portals, besides some actors in the videos.
Kundra is currently in custody in a case being investigated by the crime branch. Kundra’s name surfaced after the property cell, which was probing the case, discovered the involvement of a UK production company, Kenrin, and police arrested its executive, Umesh Kamat.
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Ahmed Ali (THE TIMES OF INDIA; July 27, 2021)
Mumbai: The city crime branch probing Raj Kundra for production of porn films summoned actor Sherlyn Chopra to record her statement as a witness in the case. In March, Chopra had lodged a complaint involving obscene videos of her being published online. The police on Monday clarified that as of now they have not found anything against Kundra’s wife Shilpa Shetty.
The property cell on Monday recorded the statement of model-actress Sagarika Shona Suman who has alleged Kundra’s company wanted to rope in some reality show contestants for live streaming strip shows. She also told police Tanvir Hashmi, who claims to be the video editor in the porn movie racket, was earlier arrested in a gang rape case.
Producer Tanvir Hashmi gives statement in porn films case
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Ahmed Ali (THE TIMES OF INDIA; July 26, 2021)
Mumbai: The city crime branch probing Raj Kundra for production of porn films on Sunday recorded the statement of film producer Tanvir Hashmi from Surat.
The police said Hashmi had been arrested with three police officials in 2015 for kidnapping and raping a model at the Sakinaka police beat chowky. The case is still pending trial.
In the porn films case, the police had summoned three accused, Vandana Tiwari alias Gehna Vashist, Yasmin Rowa Khan and Hashmi.
The police have found that two accused in the case, Arvind Kumar Srivastav and Yash Thakur, are one person. The police had issued a lookout notice against both names. Hashmi is friend of Thakur.
Porn racket probe widens, C-grade film director held from Surat
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Gehana Vasisth at Quilla court in Fort on Wednesday. Pics/Suresh Karkera
Tanvir Hashmi used his contacts to trick aspiring actress into shooting x-rated videos; he was also in touch with alleged big fish Umesh Kamat
Faizan Khan (MID-DAY; February 11, 2021)
The city Crime Branch arrested a C-grade film director from Surat on Wednesday as it widened the probe into a porn racket involving actress Gehana Vasisth. Its property cell has found that 15-20 small production houses have been providing sexually explicit contents to alleged big fish Umesh Kamat, the MD of VIAAN Industries, who is already under arrest.
The police picked 40-year-old Tanvir Hashmi, alias Tan, who has so far directed 8 films and was using his contacts to trick aspiring actresses into shooting x-rated videos. The Killa court remanded him in police custody till February 15.
“He was also having his own production and shooting pornographic videos which were then sent to UK-based Kernin Limited through Umesh Kamat,” a Crime Branch officer said. The videos shot by Hashmi have been uploaded on apps like Eight Shot, Nuefliks, and a few porn portals. Kamat also worked as a consultant for Kernin.
Sources said groups in Mumbai and Gujarat shot sleazy videos before handing them over to Kamat. The cops exposed the racket with the arrest of Rowa Khan and four others who had used foreign IP addresses to upload sex videos on HotHit app. They then arrested Gehana Vasist on the charge of using her production house for the racket and getting the raunchy visuals uploaded on escapenow.tv.
The police said Vasisth also used to send the sexually explicit videos to Kamat to relay them to Kernin Limited for commercial use.
“It is a huge racket where aspiring actresses were forced to shoot pornographic videos on the pretext of providing them roles in web series and OTT-based films. We are exploring all angles and those behind this will surely face the law,” Milind Bharambe, joint commissioner of Crime Branch, told mid-day.
Meanwhile, the police have got the custody of Vasisth till February 15. Rowa Khan and the four others arrested on February 5 are already in jail for 14 days.
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