Mumbai: To mislead the agent investigation, businessman Ripu Sudan Balkrishna Kundrra aka Raj Kundra (45), was arrested on Monday night for pornographic film production, selling its application ‘HotShots’ to a British-based company Kenrin Pvt Ltd owned by His brother.
Pradeep Bakshi’s law but controlled activities from Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.
Raj Kundra, the husband of the Shilpa Shetty actor, and his head Ryan Thorpe, was arrested by a crime branch, produced before the 37th Metropolitan Judge on Tuesday and returned in detention until July 23.
The police have arrested nine people before in this case.
Kundra was involved in streaming porn videos through the application ‘Hotshots’, police said.
‘HotShots’ has now been removed from the mobile platform, and Apple and Google has deleted it because of pornographic content.
Kundra supplies content and controls the British company from the Vian Industrial Office.
Head of Kundra It Ryan Thorpe is used to maintain application functions, including financial transactions, police said.
Kundra said that in 2019, he sold a ‘hotshots’ for 25,000 US dollars and formed another company, Prime Media weapon.
The police said they found evidence, including clips from Kundrra’s office.
The lawyer of the Ponda and Subhash Jadhav accused the illegal arrest because the police did not follow the procedure under the criminal procedure code.
The police claimed they caught Kundrra after they gathered digital evidence and enough material to show their role and company Vianan Industry in streaming porn clips on various applications.
Police, who searched the Streaming Office JLM Kundrra at Veera Desai Road, Andheri, claimed to have found documents showing their role.
“In an ongoing investigation, after taking court permission, our team conducted a search office and its residence.
We found an agreement, email, chat Whatsapp, and pornographic material,” said Milind Bharambe, Commissioner with the police (crime).
“Kundra has formed the WhatsApp group with the name ‘HS taking,’ ‘HS account’ and ‘HS Operation’ and Himself are Admin, where they discuss the income generated on porn content.
There are many transactions in various accounts on behalf of Vian Industries.
We suspect that Kundrra’s company has received great financial from foreign beaches, which is the result of a crime.
Until now we have freezed several bank accounts from the defendant where we have found Rs 7.5 Crore, “said an officer.
But Kamat told Police Kenrin owned by Pradeep Bakshi, Kundra’s brother-in-law.
The police said that even though the company Bakshi Kenrin had the ‘Hotshots’ application, Kundra controlled it from the Vian Industrial Office.
Investigation of Kiran officers Bidako told the court that Kundrra’s involvement was revealed after the arrest of the Vashist Gahna, which named the former Personal Assistant of the Umesh Kormat businessman.
Kamat revealed Kundrra’s involvement and said Kundra had appointed him as the coordinator and used to maintain the application ‘Hotshots’.
In February, crime branch property cells raided a bungalow on Madh Island and damaged pornographic film racquets and saved a woman.
Police arrested five people, namely Yasmin Rowa Khan, Pratibha Nalawade, Monu Gopaldas Joshi, Bhanusuryam Thakur and Mohammed Asif aka Saify under the Section of the IPC of fraud, modesty and pampering in obscene acts in those places to be exhibited or published publicly or obscene literature.
The mode of gang operandi is to captivate the promising model they break in a web series and short films.
They forced them to do “thick scenes” despite their objections, police said.
Kundrra’s name also appeared in an investigation by the Cyber State police.
In November last year, the police have registered FIR to 14 OTT platforms to show pornographic content.
Raj Kundrra was sent to the police detention until Friday
