Bombay HC grants interim relief in Raj Kundra's adult videos case
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Mumbai, August 18: The Bombay High Court granted interim relief to businessman and Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra in connection with an adult films racket case registered by the city police in 2020.
However, the court has kept his anticipatory bail application for hearing on August 25. The relief has been granted for a week by the court giving protection from arrest in the adult videos case.
A single-judge bench of Justice Sandeep K Shinde was hearing the anticipatory bail plea by Kundra, directed the police to respond on August 25 to the pre-arrest bail plea filed by Raj Kundra. "Interim protection granted till then," Justice Shinde said.
In 2020, the Mumbai cyber police registered a case based on a complaint alleging that certain online platforms were publishing obscene videos as part of their web series.
The Crime Branch of Mumbai Police had formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the pornography case in which businessman and husband of Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty Raj Kundra is a prime accused.
Kundra was arrested by police on July 19 along with 11 other people on charges related to the alleged creation of pornographic films. Police have named Kundraas the key conspirator by the Mumbai Police. He has been booked under Sections 420 (cheating), 34 (common intention), 292, and 293 (related to obscene and indecent advertisements and displays) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) besides relevant sections of the IT Act and the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act.
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Kundra approached the High Court after the sessions court rejected his pre-arrest bail plea earlier this month. In his bail plea, the 45-year-old said that his name is not reflected in the FIR filed by the cyber police last year and he cooperated with the police by giving multiple statements to help in the probe whenever required.
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