Porn Racket: Sagarika Shona Suman reveals one more victim’s name, says Jaanshi Apsara Yadav was threatened to shoot porn

MUMBAI: Firebrand actress Sagarika Shona Suman speaking to media persons in Mumbai today, said that one more victim Jaanshi Apsara Yadav, who originally hails from Bihar contacted her – after watching her interview on Tv, and told her about how she was threatened to either shoot for a porn film or pay up the losses incurred if the shoot was cancelled.

Jaanshi Apsara Yadav (name modified to protect victim’s identity as per Supreme Court guidelines) told Sagarika Shona Suman that last year during the month of December she was approached by some coordinator by the name of Kuresh to shoot for a so-called bold web series.

“Kuresh told her that the web-series episode would feature bold scenes including a bikini look. He never said any pornography or sexual acts were involved. Accordingly, she agreed and was taken to Madh Island for the shoot. She was promised a remuneration of Rs 20,000/- for the shoot.

However, when she reached Madh Island she was told that she would have to perform sexual acts with a male actor. She flatly refused.

She reveals that she came to know then on the set that one Alisha (real name Rowa alias Yasmeen Khan) was the producer and director of the porn web series, which would be used on Hothits, the app owned by Khan and her husband.

Khan threatened her that if she did not agree to the shoot, she would have to pay up Rs 5 lakh as damages. Fortunately, for Jaanshi Apsara Yadav, her brother is a Police Sub Inspector in the Bihar police and she immediately called up her brother who asked her to hand over the phone to Rowa Khan.

When Khan realized that she could be in serious trouble, as Yadav’s brother said he would call up the Maharashtra DGP and the Mumbai police commissioner and lodge a complaint, Rowa developed cold feet and let Yadav leave the sets, but not before taking back the Rs 5000 which was given to her as advance.

She also made Jaanshi sign a letter saying that she had no complaint against Rowa alias Alisha alias Yasmeen Khan and other team members, Sagarika Shona Suman revealed to this reporter.

Jaanshi told Suman that she saw a female actor Zoya Rathore and one male actor Bhanu alias Michel on the sets who were shooting porn acts. Another male actor Shakespeare was also present, she alleged.

Her brother booked her a flight and asked her to return home back to Bihar the same day and she has not set foot in Mumbai again, Jaanshi told Sagarika.

In the coming days, Sagarika will file a PIL in the Bombay High Court, praying that certain male and female actors who are part and parcel of the porn industry must not be treated as victims and should also be prosecuted as they are responsible for the spread of porn in the country. These actors who are the “stars of the porn industry” are actively promoting and advertising porn on the social media accounts and they need to be arrested, along with the directors and producers,” Sagarika said.