New Delhi, Feb 4: The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim protection from arrest to model and actress Sherlyn Chopra in connection with a porn film racket. A Bench headed by Justice Vineet Saran and comprising Justice Aniruddha Bose issued notice to Maharashtra on an appeal filed by Chopra challenging the November 25, 2021 order of the Bombay High Court declining her plea for anticipatory bail.
The Special Leave Petition was filed by Chopra through her lawyer Sunil Fernandes. The top court said no coercive action shall be taken against Chopra. Earlier, the apex court had granted pre-arrest bail to Raj Kundra and model Poonam Pandey in the same case. Advocate Fernandes contended that the petitioner is aggrieved by the High Court order as he said that it fails to provide proper reasoning for rejecting the need for custodial interrogation. Fernandes argued that Chopra was on ad-interim bail for almost nine months and there has not been a single instance where she has tried to abuse the concession granted to her.
