Mumbai: The pre-arrest bail plea filed by actor Gehana Vasisht accused in a case related to pornographic films was rejected by the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. She is accused of threatening, coercing and luring women with money to act in pornographic films.
Justice S K Shinde refused to grant anticipatory bail to the actor on Tuesday. Vasisht filed the plea last month, apprehending arrest in the case, PTI reported.
She has been booked under Sections 354-C (outraging modesty of a woman), 292 and 293 (sale of obscene material) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Sections 66E, 67, 67A (transmission of sexually explicit material) of the Information Technology Act, and provisions of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act.
The city police had registered three FIRs in the porn films racket case against several persons including businessman Raj Kundra. He was arrested on July 19 this year and is currently in judicial custody.
The police’s case against Vasisht is that she had lured women with the promise of small acting jobs and forced them to act in obscene movies.
These movies were then uploaded on the mobile app Hotshots, allegedly owned by Kundra.
The police subsequently also filed an application before a lower court to add another charge against Vasisht under section 370 (detaining a person against their will) of the IPC. Vasisht’s advocate Abhishek Yende had earlier argued that the actor’s arrest was not required as the police have already recovered evidence from her.
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