SC grants Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra safety from arrest for 4 weeks in porn movie racket case – Instances of India

The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted Shilpa Shetty‘s husband 4 weeks of safety from arrest in one of many circumstances associated to the porn film racket. The honourable court docket reportedly issued discover to Maharashtra Authorities on a petition filed by the businessman in search of anticipatory bail.

Earlier, within the month of November, the Bombay Excessive Court docket had rejected an anticipatory bail utility filed by Raj in reference to an FIR registered in opposition to him for allegedly distributing pornographic movies. Kundra had then approached the highest court docket for aid.

A bench comprising Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose after listening to arguments within the matter granted safety of arrest to Kundra and scheduled the matter for additional listening to after 4 weeks. Within the prime court docket, Kundra was represented by advocate Shakti Pandey and advocate Prashant Patil.

The cyber cell of the Mumbai Police has filed a case in opposition to Kundra beneath related sections of the Indian Penal Code, Indecent Illustration of Girls (Prevention) Act, and Data Know-how Act for allegedly distributing/ transmitting sexually specific movies. The FIR named actors Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Pandey as co-accused.

Kundra was arrested in July this yr by Mumbai Police in one other case the place he was accused of distributing porn movies by an app. He was granted bail in September.