Mumbai Police's crime branch has questioned actress Shilpa Shetty in the Raj Kundra pornography case which has shocked the nation. As per reports, a team of crime branch officials from Mumbai police reached the actor's house. The Hungama 2 star agreed to get her statement recorded and the crime branch has started its questioning. They added that crime branch wants to know if Shilpa Shetty knew anything about the pornography racket that was allegedly being run by her husband Raj Kundra. The crime branch also wants to quiz Shilpa Shetty about her tenure as director of Viaan, the company owned by Raj Kundra that is at the centre of this controversy. The alleged porn racket was being operated from the Viaan's office. In 2020, Shilpa Shetty resigned as its director.
Recently, the crime branch had raised Viaan's office in Andheri West in Mumbai and claimed to have seized a "huge data" of porn movies. The crime branch seized about 20 terabytes (TB) data and seven servers that were used to store it. Sources say around 1 TB data of porn videos was deleted and the crime branch has roped in forensic experts to retrieve it.The police are looking for the person(s) who deleted this data from the servers after Raj Kundra's arrest on Monday. Kundra has been sent to police custody till Tuesday. His name came up in a case for alleged streaming of pornographic videos through an app called Hotshots. The police said it had sufficient evidence against Mr Kundra. His close aide Ryan Thorpe, who looked after his company's tech matters, was arrested on Tuesday. So far 11 people have been arrested in the case.Kundra's laywer, Abad Ponda, in a court hearing on Tuesday said it is incorrect to apply Section 67A of the Information Technology Act on sending obscene material in electronic form with sections in the Indian Penal Code that deal with pornography, since these laws consider "actual intercourse" as porn - and anything else is just vulgar content.