Mumbai: Charkop police register FIR in porn case against Yasmeen Khan, others

MUMBAI: The Charkop police have registered a fresh FIR against a woman accused in the Mumbai porn racket in February 2021, who was behind bars for nearly four months.

Four persons, including Yasmeen Khan have been named in the FIR registered at the Charkop police station, for threatening a woman to shoot nude and porn videos, sources said.

A 29-year-old model filed a complaint at the Charkop police station in November alleging that she was cheated and threatened and her modesty outraged at the insistence of Khan.

The accused named in the FIR are identified as Yasmeen Khan, Anirudh Prasad Jangad, Amit Paswan and one Aditya. Jangad has already been arrested by the police and the others are absconding.

Yasmeen Khan approached the Dindoshi Sessions court for anticipatory bail (ABA), but no interim relief was granted. The matter has been kept for the 6th December and the police are to file their “say” in the ABA.

The victim told the police she was first approached by one Rahul Thakur in September and was further asked to meet a person named Kershaw.

He further directed her to a certain Rahul Pandey. Pandey told the model that they needed an actress for their web-series for a mobile application which required “bold scenes”.

According to the victim, Pandey told her in October that the web-series would be released only abroad for paid clients on an OTT app. The woman agreed to be part of the project provided she was paid Rs 50,000.

She met Jangad at Malad station as instructed by Pandey on October 8. She was then taken to a 11th-floor flat of a high-rise apartment at Bhabrekar Nagar in Malad West. Inside the flat, the complainant met two women, one was a make-up artist and the other was Yasmeen Khan, and two men, later identified as Jangad and Aditya.

“Yasmeen Khan was the director and was shooting the scenes. She asked me to remove my clothes and go nude and when I refused and demanded to leave, she threatened me with a defamation case of Rs 15 lakh,” the victim told the police.

She claimed she did the shoot as per Khan’s instructions under threat and was paid Rs 10,000 after the shoot.

However, on November 26, she came to know that her video was up on a porn site and was also being shared in social media groups in which her relatives and friends were members. Yasmeen denied any knowledge about the video and stopped taking her calls.

The flat where the shoot happened was rented by Yasmeen Khan and her group who were using it for shooting web series.

Yasmeen is absconding and filed an anticipatory bail application but no initial ad-hoc relief was granted.

Yasmeen Khan lives in a rented flat at Jankalyan Nagar, Malad West and had rented another apartment in a nearby neighbourhood to make porn films, Charkop police said.