Raj Kundra case: Sherlyn Chopra claims she never got her 50% share of income from app revenue

The Crime Branch of Mumbai Police has filed a 1467-page supplementary charge sheet against Raj Kundra and his companies in the alleged pornography case, which also includes statements of 43 witnesses. As per the charge sheet, the actress told the police that she was busy with her work as she did not know anything about the apps which were allegedly used by the accused for uploading and streaming obscene material. One of the witnesses in the case is actress Sherlyn Chopra and in her recorded statement she claimed that she never got her share of income from the revenue of the app.

Sherlyn told the police that she had signed a contract with the firm Armsprime Media Pvt Ltd to make a mobile app named ‘The Sherlyn Chopra App’. The directors of Arms Prime were Saurabh Kushwaha and Raj Kundra. As per the agreement, Sherlyn was to get 50 per cent of the revenue, but the actress said that she never got her share.

She further said, Raj Kundra then approached her and asked her to work for a mobile application named ‘Hotshots’, which was also a part of Armsprime Media. Kundra had asked him to work for the Hotshots app “without any hesitation”. He was told that the Hotshots app would have more bold and hot videos, but Chopra refused.

Sherlyn further said, “The Hotshots application belonged to Raj Kundra. He and Mita Jhunjhunwala, the creative director of Kundra’s firm, repeatedly approached me asking me to work on the application.”

Meanwhile, Shilpa Shetty claimed in a statement to Mumbai Police that she was not aware of Raj Kundra’s activities as she was busy with her work. He told the police that Vian Industries Limited was started by Kundra in the year 2015. He holds 24.50% stake in the company and was its director from April 2015 to July 2020. He later resigned from the company due to some personal reasons. “I have no idea about the ‘Hotshots’ or ‘BoliFame’ apps,” she said.

Responding to this, Sherlyn Chopra shared a video on Instagram saying, ‘According to some media reports, Didi (Shilpa Shetty) is saying that she was not aware of her husband’s nefarious antics. Didi is also saying that she does not. About her husband’s movable and immovable property. How true this statement is, you guys can understand yourself.” During her video, Sherlyn was seen doing biceps curls with dumbbells.

Taunting Shilpa, Sherlyn said, “Well what is it called? Yeda banker, peda khana. Isn’t it?”

The case against Kundra, arrested in July this year, is related to allegedly making obscene films and publishing them through certain apps. In April, the Crime Branch had filed the first chargesheet in the case against nine people.

Kundra and Ryan Thorpe were arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch on July 19 and are currently in jail in judicial custody. Their bail applications are pending in the Mumbai sessions court.

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