Porn case: Raj Kundra gets interim HC relief from arrest

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday gave interim relief against arrest to businessperson and husband of actress Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra, in a November 2020 case registered by the Nodal Cyber police station in Mumbai for alleged distribution of obscene and explicit content.

Kundra, who is behind bars in a similar case related to adult films filed by the Mumbai police crime branch, approached the HC after the sessions court rejected his pre-arrest bail plea earlier this month. Kundra has sought pre-arrest bail in the October 2020 FIR registered by the Cyber Crime department of Mumbai Police in connection with broadcasting of nude erotic content on OTT platform.

The offences in the FIR were Sections 292, 293 (sale of obscene material) under the Indian Penal Code, Sections 66E, 67, 67A (transmission of sexually explicit material) under the Information Technology Act and provisions of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act.

A single-judge bench of Justice Sandeep K. Shinde was hearing the anticipatory bail plea by Kundra in the 2020 case. He directed an interim order protecting Kundra from arrest till the next hearing date which is August 25, 2021. Kundra submitted that he was falsely implicated in the case.

Urvashi Khona

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