The entire media industry has been affected by the COVID-19 Novel Corona Virus Pandemic and this has caused quite a boom in the OTT (Over The Top) business as a platform for media. It looks like the porn industry has not fallen behind the trend! The Madhya Pradesh Police have bust a ring of movie makers involved in porn! The ring includes grey market moviemakers and distributors with a Pakistani link, who recorded porn videos of young models and girls who aspired to make it big in the movie and TV industry. The ring then uploaded the adult content as soft Indian porn to online subscribers across 20 countries. The ring had been operating out of the Madhya Pradesh capital of Indore, where the Police busted them!
The Madhya Pradesh Police's Cyber Cell have arrested 6 men so far in this case, from Indore and Gwalior. There are reports that a part of this operation is also functioning out of Mumbai. News of such an illegal operation first came out on July 25th, when a 22-year-old female model from Indore, reported that a team had shot an adult promotional video of her at an Indore farmhouse, in December 2019, after promising her of getting her a role in a web series of Ekta Kapoor's Alt Balaji OTT platform, which makes a lot of web series. The model complained that after a few months, the video they had shot on that day had now been playing as a 25-minute soft porn video on various adult and porn websites.
Based on the model's complaint, the Cyber Cell had registered a case under various sections of the Information and Technology Act 2000 and immediately got into action. The arrested people include the 4 Indore men who approached the model for the adult video, the male actor who also happens to be involved in running a sex racket, a model coordinator and the director of the video. Subsequent investigations revealed the links to the people running the OTT platform out of Gwalior - a software engineer and his tech-savvy friend. It is being reported that the OTT platform, which operated at a basic subscription of just Rs. 249 per month, had subscribers across 22 countries, including US, Poland, Switzerland, Germany and Australia. The two friends who were running the OTT platform had sought the help of a Pakistani man named Hussain Ali, for developing the website for their plarform. The Police are also investigating to see if the girls who featured in these adult videos were being forced into prostitution. Stay tuned for updates...