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RAJ KUNDRA HELD FOR ALLEGEDLY MAKING PORN; SENDS SHOCKWAVES IN INDUSTRY
The businessman has been linked to numerous controversies with this being the latest addition
Following his arrest for alleged involvement in a pornography case, businessman Raj Kundra has been sent to police custody till July 23. The case is about him luring in aspiring actors and models with a promise to give them a break, and then allegedly forcing women into porn.
It all started in 2019 when the 45-year-old invested in a tech start-up Armsprime Media. They went on to sign Poonam Pandey, Gehana Vasisth and Sherlyn Chopra. Soon, Pandey filed a case against Kundra for theft and Kundra said he is not an investor anymore.
This year, his name cropped up again in connection with the company, leading to his arrest. Vasisth was also arrested in the same case and is out on bail. Her publicist released a statement on her behalf saying, “Police should investigate fully as there are more skeletons in the cupboards of the rich.”
Pandey shares that all her sympathies are with Shilpa and her kids. “I can’t imagine what she must be going through.
So, I refuse to use this opportunity to highlight my trauma. The only thing I’ll add is that I had filed a complaint against him and the matter is sub judice,” she said.
Moreover, in a video uploaded by actor-model Sagarika Shona Suman in February, she alleged that she was asked to give her audition via video call where three people, one of them allegedly Kundra, demanded a nude audition from her. Actor Shruti Gera says she was approached in 2018 by a casting director who said Kundra would meet her to discuss his web show. “To imagine that someone like Raj Kundra, Shilpa Shetty’s husband would be doing this. People like him exploit the vulnerability of young females around.”