Raj Kundra's lawyer has objected to content being classified as pornography in a police prosecution involving pornographic videos in which he is accussed. On Tuesday, his lawyer, Abad Ponda, made this argument in court. Raj Kundra, actor Shilpa Shetty's husband, was arrested on Monday by Mumbai Police, who said he appeared to be a "major conspirator" in a case involving pornographic filmmaking and publishing them in apps.
Mr Ponda claims that combining Section 67A of the Information Technology Act's prohibition on sending obscene material in electronic form with sections of the Indian Penal Code dealing with pornography is incorrect, because these laws consider "actual intercourse" to be porn and everything else to be vulgar content.
So far, eleven persons have been arrested in connection with the case. On Tuesday, Mr Kundra's close aide Ryan Thorpe, who was in charge of his company's IT, was arrested.
Out on bail, actor Gehna Vasisth claims she was wrongfully imprisoned in the case. "Those are erotica videos, which are only for adults. They're not pornographic in any way "she expressed herself.
According to the police, the complaint was filed in February following a raid on a villa at Madh Island near Mumbai where a pornographic video was allegedly being shot. During the raid, the cops found a lady who was later became complainant in the case.