The Mumbai Police on Tuesday made a shocking revelation that arrested businessman Raj Kundra and his brother-in-law Pradeep Bakshi are the alleged masterminds of an international porn films racket perpetrated through their content production companies based in India and the United Kingdom.
According to the police, the porn videos were sent through an application to Kenrin Production in UK to legal troubles in India. The edited pornographic films were reportedly uploaded to a mobile application named Hotshot. During the investigations, the police found that the production house was allegedly funding pornography via different agents in India.
Pradeep Bakshi & Raj Kundra are is the master mind behind International Porn Racket
The police have discovered a Whatsapp group created by Raj Kundra which was allegedly created for payments of the movies. The group was named “H AAccounts” and had Jundra as its admin with four other members: Pradeep Bakshi, Rob Digital Marketing Hotshot, Raw Evans, content head of Hotshot and Megha Viaan ‘accounts’.
The husband of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, Kundra is the is the Chairman of Kenrin Ltd., London. Mumbai’s Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Milind Bharambe said that the two companies had a mobile app called ‘HotShots Digital Entertainment’, developed by Kenrin Ltd.
The HotShots app is described as the “world’s first 18+ app” showcasing some of the hottest models and celebs globally in exclusive photos, short films and hot videos — implying soft-to hard porn.
Raj Kundra’s Porn App is free to download
“The free to download app was yanked off by both Apple and Google Playstore for the type of its content. The Mumbai Police have recovered incriminating evidences like several HotShot films, video clips, WhatsApp Chats during the investigation” Bharambe in a briefing to the media today said.
The police probe made the startling revelations of how new or aspiring actresses coming to Mumbai from all over India were lured with work offers in short films, webseries and other movie.
“They were called for auditions and after selection made to do bold scenes, which went onto semi-nude and then full-nude shoots. Some of them strongly opposed this and had approached the police,” Bharambe said.
After making the content, the two companies — Viaan and Kendrin — made them available on mobile apps, offering subscriptions akin to the mainstream OTT platforms, advertise them on social media, all of which were illegal as pornography in any form is banned in India.
Following the investigations by the Malvani Police and later by the Crime Branch-CID and Property Cell, at least 12 arrests have been made so far, including Kundra, his techie associate Ryan J. Tharpe, who were remanded to police custody till July 23 by a Mumbai Magistrate Court.