Bombay HC rejects actress Gehana Vasisht’s pre-arrest bail plea

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, rejected the pre-arrest bail plea filed by actor Gehana Vasisht accused in a case related to pornographic films.

Vasisht is accused of threatening, coercing and luring women with money to act in pornographic films.

Justice S K Shinde refused to grant anticipatory bail to the actor on Tuesday.

Vasisht filed the plea last month, apprehending arrest in the case.

She has been booked under Sections 354-C (outraging modesty of woman), 292 and 293 (sale of obscene material) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Sections 66E, 67, 67A (transmission of sexually explicit material) of the Information Technology Act, and provisions of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act.

The city police had registered three FIRs in the porn films racket case against several persons.