Tribune Web Desk
ChandigarhMumbai, July 23
A team from Mumbai Police’s Crime Branch landed at Kundra’s Juhu residence on Friday evening, sources said—a development that comes hours after a court extended the businessman’s police custody until July 27.
Kundra, who’s married to actor Shilpa Shetty, was arrested on July 19 on charges of creating and disseminating pornographic content through mobile applications.
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He faces criminal charges under the Indian Penal Code as well as the Information Technology Act.
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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