Porn case: Five charged with gang rape, trafficking

KOLKATA: Five people, who were arrested in connection with a porn video case, have been slapped with trafficking and gang-rape charges.
The move came hours after TOI reported on how an aspiring actor was duped with the promise of a key role for a project to be launched on a leading OTT platform and her video was later found on a porn website. The court slapped the charges on the accused, accepting the prayer of the police.
Cops registered a separate complaint after the victim claimed to have received 18 threat calls from unknown numbers. Cops also ensured that the woman’s personal security is heightened.
According to Bivas Chatterjee, a cyber expert and special prosecutor in the case, the woman is among four victims identified so far. “The woman claimed that she was sedated before the shoot and then tortured. She said that she had felt a numbing pain in her body after regaining her consciousness. Later, when the obscene video went viral, some youths from her neighbourhood came to her residence and threatened her. They demanded money or physical relations with her. They threatened that if their demands were not met, the video clippings would be shared across the neighbourhood. We have taken her complaint seriously and the Bidhannagar Police will investigate whether the youths had any link with the five accused or not,” said Chatterjee.
The arrest of “producer” Subhanjan Roy led police to understand the modus operandi of the gang. Four others of the gang were also arrested. Cops said that many victims approached them ever since the accused are being rounded up for a week.