The Mumbai criminal branch on Wednesday filed an additional 1,467-page payroll in the case of a racket of pornography against four defendants, including businessman Raj Kundra, and the head of IT at his Viaan industries company, Ryan Thorpe.
In addition to the two defendants currently behind bars, police have also reported two wanted defendants, who are outside the country, in connection with their alleged role in the scam.
So far, Bombay police have arrested 11 people in the case that was ripped off after a raid on a bungalow on Madh Island in February this year. Police had already filed a charge sheet against nine people in April this year and the rest have been charged in the charge sheet filed Wednesday.
Bombay police had arrested Kundra and Thorpe on July 19 and the deadline to file the case file was ending later this week. An official said in the charge sheet that they have presented evidence to show that Kundra, Thorpe, wanted to charge Yash Thakur, alias Arvind Kumar Shrivastava, a resident of Singapore, and Sandeep Bakshi, Kundra’s brother-in-law based in the UK. on running portals where pornographic content was uploaded.
An official said evidence against Kundra and Thorpe includes porn clips retrieved from Kundra’s Viaan Industries office, deleted pornographic content from the company’s database, Whatsapp chats and emails showing that Kundra was performing day-to-day operations when it came to uploading pornographic content.
The agent added that apart from that, they have also found some unusual money transfers to Kundra’s account which they suspect are related to the pornography case. Now that the police have presented the charge sheet, it is likely that Kundra and Thorpe will apply for bail.
Although the initial police investigation against the nine people previously detained was mainly related to the shooting of pornographic films in and around Bombay, after the charge sheet in that case, the Bombay police began to focus -se in the defendant who operated portals that were used to upload the content.
Police found that a UK-based company – Kenrin Private Limited – had owned some apps such as hot hotshots, which displayed pornographic content. Police later discovered that Kundra, through its own Bombay-based Viaan industries, was linked to Kenrin and played an important role in the management of pornographic portals. In the UK, it was his brother-in-law Bakshi who ran Kenrin and he has been named as a wanted defendant in the charge sheet.
The second wanted defendant, identified as Yash Thakur’s alias, Arvind Kumar Shrivastava, who is believed to be based in Singapore, was also involved in the operations of some applications that uploaded pornographic content. Thakur and Kundra took the services of some mutual contacts such as Rowa Khan, a defendant arrested in the case, who organized the filming of pornographic films on Madh Island and elsewhere in the city and around city, said an official.
The agent added that they are pursuing legal channels, such as receiving notifications against accused defendants who are out of the country so that they can be brought to India to deal with the law.
An official added that, apart from this case, an SIT had been formed to investigate three other FIRs related to the racket of pornography where the victims had appeared alleging that they had been forced to act in these films. movies. The investigation into these cases is still ongoing, the agent said.