Victim Alleges Ullu CEO Vibhu Agarwal Forced Her To Do Pornographic Podcasts, Remove Her Undergarments

MUMBAI: The complainant victim who has registered an FIR at the Amboli Police Station in suburban Mumbai (FIR No. 622/21) u/s 354, 354B, 506 IPC has alleged in her statement to the police that the CEO of Ullu App, Vibhu Agarwal forced her to remove her undergarments and then one Anjali Raina the Country Head of Ullu Digital Pvt Ltd and Vibhu Agarwal clicked photographs of the victim in her undergarments and well as shot obscene videos of the victim, after making her pose in vulgar and derogatory positions.

“On 18, 19 and 21 June, I was called to the office of Ullu Digital at Andheri West. There I was locked up in a small cabin from morning to late evening for several hours and not even allowed to go to the toilet. Vibhu Agarwal and Anjali Raina forced me to remove all my clothes, including my under garments. They then made me wear under garments of their own company – Ullu Merchandise, which bears the company logo. They also made me pose in vulgar poses and clicked photographs and shot videos. They said if I complained to the police, they would make these photographs and videos viral,” the victim said in her FIR statement to the Amboli police.

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In addition to the above, the victim has alleged that on several occasions she was forced to give her voice (as voice over) for pornographic films and podcasts for the Ullu Digital-owned app “Lattu”.

“In spite of refusing to do so, the CEO Vibhu Agarwal forced me to act in pornographic films and also give my voice for playback in his pornographic podcasts. He made me sit in the editing room with several male employees and watch all the porn movies – ostensibly for quality control. The male members made very vulgar and obscene comments on the private parts of the women acting in the films and I was daily forced to hear the same,” the victim has alleged in her FIR.

The complainant has told police that Agarwal called her to the company’s storeroom and threatened to harm and defame her family if she did not give in to his demands.

Vibhu Agarwal and Anjali Raina have approached the Sessions Court at Dindoshi in suburban Mumbai for anticipatory bail in this matter. The case is posted to 21st August for hearing.

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IndyaTv.in made several attempts to contact Mr Vibhu Agarwal of Ullu App, but he was unavailable for comment. He is not answering his mobile phones and WhatsApp and SMS messages sent to his three mobile phones/numbers went unanswered. Attempts to contact him on the landline number at his Mumbai office also proved futile. Our reporters left messages with Ullu Digital staff, requesting for an interview or audience with Vibhu Agarwal to hear his side of the story, but no response was forthcoming. The Country Head and Executive Director of the company said it was not possible to reach Vibhu Agarwal. We will update this story when Mr Vibhu Agarwal responds to us.

The FIR has been registered under sections 354 A (sexual harassment), 354 B (using criminal force on any woman or abetting such act with the intention of disrobing), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (act done with common intention by two or more persons) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

In a separate letter written to the Mumbai Police Commissioner and the Jt CP (Crime), Mumbai police, the victim has alleged that the male IO (investigating officer) has been harassing her and asking her funny and irrelevant questions. Normally in cases of rape and molestation a female police officer is appointed as IO, but in this case, the male IO is hell bent on shielding the accused persons, the victim alleged.