Actress and model Gehena Vahisht is one of the accused in the Adult film racket with Raj Kundra. The actress is currently out on bail and recently she went live on her Instagram account. The actress asked the audience if she should go nude on the live streaming.

According to her if she does that her viewers can decide if it is “Vulgar” or “cheap” but could that be considered porn? Through out the video Gehena kept saying it was a live without clothes and captioned it as “without cloth live. m without cloth in this video but no one telling that it’s a porn but when I wear all the cloths , some ppl claim porn. height of hypocrisy”

While in an interview with Etimes, Gehena Vahisht said, “His arrest is completely illegal because the police have kept him in custody for 7-8 days and in the meanwhile they have taken his mobile phone, laptop, CDs and bank account details. If they want to make enquiries, they have enough proof already. Where is the need for them to keep him in custody? The charge sheet has been filed for months now. They claim that 91 videos have been found. They can say anything. Where is the proof? They had said the same thing when I was arrested; that they had found 80-odd videos. That is the reason I conducted a live video session yesterday, where I was nude. It wasn’t vulgar and didn’t fall under the porn category. Cover dekh ke andar ki cheez decide kar lena galat baat hai (You can’t judge a book by its cover). Raj Kundra’s name was not mentioned in the charge sheet and if it was mentioned why was he not arrested back then. Why did the police swing into action after 6 months?”

Gehena had submitted a plea in the court for an interim relief as she didn’t want to get arrested. However this relief was denied by the court and the hearing was deferred to 6th of August 2021.

During the hearing on Tuesday, a Mumbai Session court did not grant interim relief to Gehana.
As per ANI, there will be no interim relief for the actress. The court has set a date for the next hearing on August 06.
“Pornography case: No interim relief for Gehana Vasisth by Mumbai Sessions court, next date of hearing 6th August,” tweeted ANI. She filed a pre-arrest bail plea last week over fears of being arrested.

Vasisth’s lawyer Sunil Kumar also explained the pre-arrest bail. In an interview, he said, “We have moved the court for a pre-arrest anticipatory bail as there was a chance that she would have been arrested by the police.”

The 45-year-old businessman was arrested on July 19 for his alleged connection in the creation and distribution of pornographic content.

On Monday, actress Shilpa Shetty finally released her first official statement post her husband’s arrest.

Shilpa wrote: ‘‘Yes! The past few days have been challenging, on every front. There have been a lot of rumours and accusations. “A lot of unwarranted aspersions on me were cast by the media and (not so) well-wishers as well. A lot of trolling/questions posed… not only to me but also to my family.
MY STAND… HAVE NOT COMMENTED YET
and will continue to refrain from doing so in this case as it is sub-judice, so please stop attributing false quotes on my behalf. Reiterating my philosophy of, as a celebrity “Never never explain’. All I will say is, as it’s an ongoing investigation, I have full faith in the Mumbai Police & the judiciary. As a family, we are taking recourse to all our available legal remedies”.

She further added, “But, till then I humbly request you – especially as a MOTHER – to respect our privacy for my children’s sake and request you to refrain from commenting on half-baked information without verifying the veracity of the same, I am a proud law-abiding Indian citizen and a hardworking professional for the last 29 years. People have put their faith in ME & I’ve never let anyone down. So, most importantly, I request you to respect my family’s and ‘my right’ to privacy in these times. We don’t deserve a media trial. Please let the law take its course. Satyameva Jayate. with positivity and gratitude.”

At the moment, the crime branch has not found any evidence that proves Shilpa’s involvement in the case. The actress was interrogated for hours, where she maintained her stance and said she didn’t know the nature of the content being published on HotShots and other apps.

According to reports, Gehana claimed that the team of cops who came to arrest demanded a bribe to avert the arrest and even threatened to frame her in the case. The actress said that cops wanted money to release her, but when she denied they said that “they could make any case against anyone”. 

She also addressed the screenshots of the chat between Yash Thakur and Tanveer Hashmi’s conversation about the arrangement of Rs 8 lakhs. To this, she added, the money arranged was also demanded by the police.

Vasisth was arrested in February 2021. She was behind bars for more than four months. 

The actress has now applied for pre-arrest anticipatory bail, which will be heard at the Dindoshi court on Tuesday. Her lawyer Sunil Kumar confirmed the development, adding, We have moved the court for pre-arrest anticipatory bail as there was a chance that she would have been arrested by the police.”

In a conversation with ETimes, the actress said, “I will not be going to the police as you know the last time the police gave out wrong details about how my arrest took place. I am waiting for a copy of my charge sheet to tell the world about the misinformation given to the media in my case.”

Gehana expressed her fear about getting framed into the case by the police. She added that this will only prevent her from exposing the reality of the content being made which was nothing but porn. 

According to reports, Mumbai Police has transferred the case, which was registered at the Malvani Police Station, to the Property Cell. In a statement to ANI with regards to the Pornography case, Mumbai Police said, “Case registered against 3 producers of the company of businessman & actor Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra & actor Gehana Vasisth handed over to the Property Cell of Mumbai Police Crime Branch. The case was registered at Malvani Police Station”. The property cell filed an adult film racket case in February earlier this year after it raided a bungalow on Madh Island and arrested five people in the case, including Gehana Vasisth.

Apart from that, the crime branch has raided Shilpa and Raj Kundra’s Juhu residence and office. The branch claims to have seized around 70 porn videos and several concealed files shot and owned by Raj Kundra and his former PA Umesh Kamat. While Shilpa is also under the scanner. As of yet, the branch has not found any evidence indicating her active role in the racket. 

As per the Mid-Day report, a police official said, “She (Shilpa Shetty) said that the movies available on Hotshot are not pornography but erotica. She also said that nowadays, similar content is available on the various OTT platforms and in fact, some are more obscene than what is available on Hotshot.”

Extremely shocking and disturbing details have surfaced about how two women, who were enticed with money, were threatened and forced to shoot adult film content.

According to a Mid-Day report, the women were lured with money in lockdown as they struggled to find jobs. The victims named Gehana Vasith, Rova Khan and Tanveer Khan as the accusers for forcing them into shooting vulgar content.

The 25-year-old victim recalled how she was driven to Madh Island in 2018 in Rova Khan’s car for a film titled ‘Single Mother’. But after reaching the set she was told that she was too thin to play the role of mother and was given the role of a ‘Bhartanwali’ instead. After reading the script, the victim refused to play the part but was allegedly told by Rova that her name and look would be changed. She then said that she was offered Rs 25,000 and was extremely uncomfortable doing the scene. The woman remembers being forced to go nude and threatened with terrible consequences.

“After the threat, I agreed to do the scene after practising intimate scenes a few times while being half-naked. In the middle of this, women and men in plainclothes came into the room and said they were the police and the shooting stopped,” the woman said in her statement to the cops.

The second victim was a woman aged 20-year-old who was also offered Rs 10,000 to shoot for a web series that belonged to Gehana Vasisth. The script of this series revolved around a king and queen. One scene included 3 people telling the woman that they had been waiting for her to turn 18. They would then take her into the bedroom and take turns raping her.

When the victim objected she was threatened by Gehana Vasisth saying that Rs 10 lakh was spent on the production of the film and if she refused to play the part, she would have to pay the entire amount

In her police statement, the victim said “The accused made me work in a porn film against my wishes. When I refused to work, they demanded Rs 10 lakh as damages. Then they defamed me by uploading the film on a website”.

The officers investigating the case stated that over 100 of such X-rated films have been made and uploaded on various platforms like Hotshots, Hot Hit, and Nuefliks. These videos a sold to Raj Kundra and Arvind Srivastava aka Yash Thakur.

The latest development regarding the case is that the Mumbai Crime branch will now probe Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra’s joint accounts. Police believe that earnings from the HotShots and Bolly Fame app were sent to this account.

Officials also raided Kundra’s office and found a “concealed” cupboard. Many files and data were excavated from the hidden cupboard. An official told TOI, “We have brought these files, which will be studied by the forensic auditing team. We are sending eight servers seized from Kundra’s office for forensic analysis as prima facie we have found pornographic data deleted after the police busted the racket in February. Experts can find out whether these servers have been used to upload pornographic material to Kenrin.”

Gehana Vasisth and two others were summoned by the Crime branch. In February 2021, Gehana was arrested for creating pornographic content and was later released on bail after four months.

Gehana Vasisth aka Vandana Tiwari was arrested on February 7, 2021. Recently, WhatsApp conversations between Umesh Kamat and Yash Thakur have been leaked. Screenshots of the conversation made it clear they were both looking for lawyers to ensure that Gehana was released on bail.

During the conversation, Yash is seen expressing his concerns. He believed that if Gehana Vasisth was in custody for a long time, she would disclose the identities of other parties involved as well.

Yash wrote: “Lekin Mera doubt abhi bhi wohi hai. Tum Pata Karo. jab gehana ke pas neufliks ke koi project the ne nahi to wo hothit app kee casting ke liye jo ladkiyo ko police ne trap set kiya tha..unko Gehana Kyon reply kar rahee thee. Ya to wo Hothit app se linked hai. kuch issue hai.”

In February Gehana was arrested after shooting and posted 87 pornographic films on her website. Her publicist said that these videos should be classified as erotica, not porn.