The Maharashtra cyber cell will call OTT platform ALTBalaji’s joint managing director, Ekta Kapoor, to record her statement in connection with an FIR registered against OTT platforms last year for allegedly showing sexually explicit and obscene content online. The FIR was lodged by a retired customs and central excise officer in November last year for an offence under section 292 (sale of obscene material) of the Indian Penal Code along with provisions of the Information Technology Act and Indecent Representation of Women Act. ALTBalaji was named in the FIR.
The cyber cell officials have started recording statements of heads of different OTT platforms named in the FIR and actors starring in the allegedly obscene videos. Actress Sherlyn Chopra’s statement was recorded from March 15 to 18.