Mumbai: Actress Shilpa Shetty has told Mumbai Police she was too busy with her work to know what her husband Raj Kundra was up to. Her statement is part of the over 1,400-page charge sheet filed by the Mumbai Police against Kundra and the IT head of his company Viaan industries, Ryan Thorpe in the porn racket case. The charge sheet also details the evidence against two other wanted accused in the case, Yash Thakur and Sandeep Bakshi, Indian Express reported.
The Indian Express has a copy of the statement to Mumbai Police, in which Shetty said, “Kundra started Viaan industries Limited in 2015 and I was one of the directors till 2020 when I resigned due to personal reasons.”
“I am not aware about the Hotshots or Bollyfame apps. I was too busy with my own work and hence, not aware about what Kundra was up to,” she added.
The police have claimed in the charge sheet that Kundra used the Mumbai office of Viaan Industries to run the day-to-day operations of the porn racket.
Apart from Shetty, there are statements of 42 more witnesses, some of them recorded before a magistrate, to prove the case against Kundra and Thorpe.
An officer said in the charge sheet that they have submitted evidence to show that Kundra, Thorpe, wanted accused Yash Thakur alias Arvind Kumar Shrivastava, a Singapore resident, and Sandeep Bakshi, brother-in-law of Kundra, based in the UK, were involved in running portals where pornographic content was uploaded.
The deadline to file the charge sheet in the case ends later this week, the report added.
