On Monday, the British Asian businessman, Raj Kundra wasarrested because he was found guilty of establishing a porn app by the propertycell of the Mumbai Crime Branch. He made this app just a year and a half ago andthe earnings from the business were in crores in a short period of time. Inconsideration of the immoral demand of the porn viewers, he planned to open aporn hub, with the help of a London-based company named Kenrin Limited, whichwas owned by his brother-in-law.
The Mumbai Crime Branch reported that the business wasmore in demand during the COVID-19 lockdown period and the rich businessmanhad a Plan B, which was Bollyfame, which was to be executed when Raj Kundra’sbusiness would come under the limelight.
The joint commissioner of crime, Milind Bharambe toldthat, he wasn’t able to upload the porn content on the application called ‘Hotshot’,he used to send the videos to a foreign platform via ‘WeTransfer’, all the content was made in his own office and then sent to the London-based company,which was owned by his brother-in-law, ‘Pradeep Bakshi’.
The roleof WhatsApp chats in the case:
He already knew that he was violating Indian law. Forthe app, Hotshot, the application was already taken down from the Google PlayStore, last year in November and in June 2020, from Apple; this step was takenbecause the content which was being uploaded on the application was against thelaw.
In another chat, Bakshi had shared a PDF that statedHotshot had been suspended from Play Store, to which Kundra said, “Its ok, PlanB started max in 2-3 weeks new application will be live on iOS and Android it’sa blessing”
In a chat of a WhatsApp group, a digital marketing professionalwho is known as Rob told Kundra to deactivate the bold films and appeal on the androidapp downloading station. The police informed that Kundra wanted to shopshooting movies and instead go for live streaming of models and actors.
It is also predicted by the crime branch that it wasKundra who opened the London based company and later gave it to Bakshi, It isalso reviled in the chats that Kundra was operating activities on HS andKenrin, on which the content was being uploaded through WhatsApp groups, whoseadmin was Kundra himself. In December 2019, Kundra had sold the app to Kenrinfor $25,000.
Kundra’s earnings:
According to the sources, it is stated that it isbelieved that he earned Rs 2-3 lakh per day in the beginning and later on hemade Rs 6-8 lakh daily. Bharambe said, “Documents of financial transactions runinto thousands. We are analyzing the details to get exact earnings. The samewill be treated as proceeds of crime. So far, we have frozen Rs 7.5 crore inmany accounts.”
The guilty were arrested under the section 67A and the ITAct by the Senior Advocate Abad Ponda. The implications deal with sexually explicit,“Only the content ‘act of coitus’ intercourse can be considered porn, rest allis just vulgar but not porn.”
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In February, the case was thrown into scan when a raidwas conducted in a Madh island bungalow and in all 5 people was arrestedbecause of making sexual videos by luring aspiring actors in the title of OTTbased movies. The victims were asked to sign a blank paper which was thenconverted into an agreement which stated that a person agreed to performintimate, bold, erotic scenes which consisted of lip lock, smooch, topless/nudecontent for RS 10,000 to Rs 20,000.
Later on, actor Gehna Vasisth was arrested as she used tohire people and shoot their videos which were handed over to Kamat. Afterwhich, Kamat was arrested and which lead the Crime Branch to know about thelead role of Kundra in the porn racket.