Mumbai, July 23
After arresting her husband and businessman Raj Kundra in a case of alleged production and distribution of pornographic films through apps, Mumbai Police on Friday recorded the statement of Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty, an official said.
Shetty’s statement was recorded at her house in suburban Juhu in the afternoon, he said.
The crime branch of Mumbai Police also conducted a search of the house and seized a laptop, the official added.
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As Shetty was a director of Viaan Industries, Kundra’s firm, the police decided to question her, he said, adding that she had later resigned from the post.
Earlier in the day, a local court extended his custody after police said they wanted him for investigations. Police told the court they had seized a massive cache—around 4 TB worthñof images and videos, which are mostly of adult content, from Kundra. Police told the court that 51 clips, including 35 from ‘Hotshots’—the app through which the content was streamed—were found on a laptop, and police were checking if all these clips were uploaded to the internet, an NDTV report said.
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Police also said Kundra was working on a “plan B” after Google and Apple disabled ‘Hotshots’ from their digital stores for streaming pornographic content. They said he was creating a new platform—Bolifem—that would, eventually, again be listed on the Android and iOS stores, the report said.
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In addition, police said they also had a record of transactions—from an account in Yes Bank registered to Kundra to one in the United Bank of Africa. They suspect money from sale of alleged pornographic content was used for online betting. Rs 7.5 crore has been seized so far.
Police had earlier told the court that the 45-year-old businessman was gaining financially from the illegal activity of making and selling pornographic material.
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Police had claimed they had seized Kundra’s mobile phone and its contents needed to be scrutinised and also his business dealings and transactions had to be looked into.
— With PTI
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