The investigation in businessman Raj Kundra run pornographiccontent creation and publishing on apps racket is still underway by the MumbaiPolice Crime Branch.
Going by the media report, four employees of detainedKundra and his Bollywood actor wife Shilpa Shetty have turned witnesses in theporn racket case and have asserted that their employer had asked them to removethe porn clips from the ‘Hotshots,’ app used to publish illicit content.
According to the police investigation, the businessman used‘Hotshots’ for streaming porn content. The app is already under the radar of theCrime Branch and it was removed from the Google Play Store for Android phoneusers and Apple’s App Store prior to his arrest.
In order to keep his business running, Raj Kundra activated“Plan B” and launched another app, Bollyfame.
Reiterating here, Raja Kundra was arrested by MumbaiPolice on July 19 and the court sent him to judicial custody till July 27.It has been asserted by the Police that a lot of data was removed from therecords a day after his arrest.
According to an official of the Intelligence Bureau, RajKundra had links with another accused Yash Thakur, who is absconding, saidsources. It has been learnt, Yash Thakur befriended the IB official and thenasked him to start using the app to stream the clips. Thus, the officialregistered on Thakur’s app in his wife’s name and started streaming content.
However, when porn clips were posted on the app, IBofficial raised objection and reiterated to Thakur that he was going againstthe earlier proposal that it
Raj Kundra has said the videos might be described as"lascivious" but do not show "explicit sexual acts".
In a statement to the Crime Branch, Kundra’s wife ShilpaShetty had told police that she had no clue of the exact nature of the content onthe mobile app which Raj Kundra created and published. She has even said thather husband is innocent and also underlined the difference between 'erotica'and 'pornography.’