Who is Nandita Dutta? Porn star arrested for coercing women into nude shoots
An Indian porn star was arrested for allegedly helping lure women into pornography. Identified as Nandita Dutta of Dumdum, Kolkata, India, a complaint was filed against the soft-porn actress by two young models in the New Town district of the city just this week. One of the accusers alleged that Dutta forced her to do a nude photoshoot in the affluent neighborhood of Ballygunge in south Kolkata. The same girl's friend alleged that Dutta and her group forced her to star in an adult video in a New Town hotel.
News of this comes amid harrowing accounts of sex workers on paid subscription website OnlyFans after Tina Bean alleged that when hackers blackmailed her and shared videos of ISIS beheadings on her account, the portal suspended her without any further action against the hackers. There's also the ever-increasing list of mysterious and tragic porn star deaths, while Mercedes Carrera and her husband who had sex with a minor, managed to get their trial put off for the 12th time. It's reported that in India, impressionable young women from not-so-well-to-do financial conditions are often lured into the not-always consensual world of porn, but in Dutta's case, she wasn't the mastermind behind the alleged operation.
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Who is Nandita Dutta?
The Indian soft porn actress is popularly known by her industry name 'Nancy Bhabi'. The 30-year-old was charged by Kolkata police who arrested her in her home in Dum Dum, reported Times of India. Working along with her was an associate called Mainak Ghosh, who was picked up from his residence in the Naktala neighborhood of the city after the complaints were filed on July 26.
According to the accusers, Dutta and Ghosh offered them a break in the coveted Bollywood film industry if they agreed to comply with the nude shoots and porn film. The two accused of coercing appeared before a Barasat court this week, and have since been sent to police custody for a week. A spokesman for the Bidhannagar Commissionerate told the publication: "We are going to interrogate them for their accomplices and also to know other places where they conducted the shoots. We will also question them whether they used to sell videos and if they were a part of a larger porn racket."
Dutta's ties with Raj Kundra
Police are investigating further to link the accusations with another very sensational case ongoing in India after popular Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty's entrepreneur husband Raj Kundra was accused of distributing pornography, which is illegal in India. Kundra was jailed for 14 days with an investigation still on after a woman accused him of crimes similar to Dutta and Ghosh's, claiming she had been coerced into doing a porn movie.
It has also since been reported that Dutta had acted in two films produced by Kundra's hotshots app. Both her and Ghosh have been charged with assault or use of criminal force with the intention of disrobing or compelling her to be naked, voyeurism, defamation, molestation, buying or disposing of any person as a slave, cheating and forgery. Apart from regular promises of a big Bollywood break, groups like these are also accused of threatening women of poor financial conditions with dire consequences, and other times, quick easy money.