Bombay High Court rejects Raj Kundra's pre-arrest bail plea in porn case

The Bombay High Court on Thursday rejected an anticipatory bail application filed by businessperson and Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra, in connection with an FIR registered against him for allegedly distributing pornographic videos.

The cyber cell of the Mumbai police has filed a case against Kundra under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Indecent Representation of Women (Prevention) Act, and Information Technology Act for allegedly distributing/ transmitting sexually explicit videos.

Fearing arrest, Kundra, first sought anticipatory bail from the sessions court but it was refused, so he moved the HC, claiming that he had been framed. The FIR named actors Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Pandey as co-accused.

His lawyers, say, he was in no way connected to content creation, publication or transmission of alleged illegal videos even as the actors, who were named as co-accused, had given full consent to shoot the videos.