Mumbai:
Actor Shilpa Shetty has been listed as a witness in Mumbai Police’s cost sheet towards her jailed husband Raj Kundra, who’s accused of manufacturing and streaming porn on cell apps.
In response to the 1,400-page cost sheet, Shilpa Shetty advised the police she was not conscious of her husband’s actions as she was busy together with her personal work.
“I used to be too busy with work, I didn’t know what Raj Kundra was as much as,” the actor and actuality present decide mentioned in a press release included within the cost sheet filed earlier than a Mumbai court docket at the moment.
Shilpa Shetty’s assertion additionally says she did not know of the controversial apps “Hotshots” or “Bollyfame”, each linked to the porn racket.
The actor has not commented on the cost sheet or the assertion that quotes her.
The police accuse Raj Kundra, 45, of streaming porn content material on these apps.
After “Hotshots” was faraway from Google’s Play Retailer and Apple’s App Retailer, one other app, “Bollyfame”, was launched.
The cost sheet says the businessman used the premises of Viaan Industries Restricted to run the porn racket.
Raj Kundra was arrested on July 19 together with a number of others, together with staff; 4 staff are believed to have turned witnesses towards him.
Raj Kundra has argued in court docket that the content material will be categorised as “erotica” however not pornographic and that comparable materials is obtainable on OTT platforms like Netflix.
Legal guidelines towards publishing and transmitting “obscene materials” are robust in India, although watching pornography in non-public is authorized.
The police allege {that a} UK-based firm was arrange by Raj Kundra and his brother and registered in that nation so it might evade Indian cyber-laws.
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