The Bombay High Court today rejected the pleas filed by businessman Raj Kundra and his associate Ryan Thorpe, challenging their arrest and subsequent remand orders passed by the metropolitan magistrate’s court in a case of alleged production and streaming of pornographic content on apps reported PTI.
Kundra and Thorpe were arrested last month and remanded initially to police custody, and subsequently to judicial custody.
Justice A S Gadkari of the high court, who was presiding over their pleas, had reserved the verdict on the same on August 2.
On Saturday, while rejecting the contentions made by Kundra and Thorpe, and dismissing their pleas, the high court said, “The remand to custody by the metropolitan magistrate is within conformity of law and does not require any interference.”
Kundra, husband of actor Shilpa Shetty, and Thorpe, in their petitions, had termed their arrest as illegal, saying that the mandatory provision of issuing a notice under section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) had not been followed.
They had urged the high court to order for their immediate release and quash two orders passed by the magistrate’s court remanding them to custody.
