Raj Kundra, others get anticipatory bail from Supreme Court in pornography case

The Supreme Court has granted anticipatory bail to businessman Raj Kundra, and actors Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Pandey in connection with an FIR against them for allegedly distributing pornographic videos.

Kundra is booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Indecent Representation of Women (Prevention) Act and Information Technology Act for allegedly distributing/ transmitting sexually explicit videos. The FIR names actors Chopra and Pandey as co-accused.

Appearing for one of the petitioners, senior advocate R Basant submitted that a chargesheet has already been filed in the case and the accused are cooperating with the police.


A bench of Justices K M Joseph and B V Nagarathna said: "Having heard the counsel for the parties, we are of the view that the petitioners may be granted anticipatory bail."

The bench, according to a PTI report, also directed Kundra and the other accused to cooperate in the investigation. The top court had earlier granted interim protection from arrest to Kundra in the case.

Kundra's lawyers claimed that he was in no way connected to content creation, publication or transmission of alleged illegal videos even as the actors, who were named as co-accused, had given full consent to shoot the videos.