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Anara Gupta (born August 1986) is an Indian model and actress who won the “Miss Jammu” beauty pageant in 2001. She has been at the center of an ongoing and widely publicized pornography and police scandal in Jammu and Kashmir since 2004.AllegationA CD with a porno of Gupta was held in custody for about 10 days during which time she was presented to the media. She accused well-known cable TV operator Narinder Kohli of having raped her and lured her into the pornography business, then blackmailing her with the produced CD; Kohli was arrested. She also described a larger pornography ring, involving several politicians.Counter allegationThe detention was later found to have been illegal and three police officers were dismissed. Gupta retracted her confession and claimed to have been tortured and coerced by police into making a false confession during her illegal detention, and proceeded to sue the police for compensation. An investigation by the forensic lab in Hyderabad concluded that the woman in the video was not Anara Gupta and police then acted to close the case against her. An investigation by the forensic laboratory in Chandigarh however came to the opposite conclusion. Several parties, including the fired police officers, argued against closing the case, and court hearings were held throughout 2005, during which time Gupta was barred from talking to the media.Follow upIn May 2005 she travelled with her mother to New Delhi and met with officials of the National Commission for Women and the National Human Rights Commission in order to have them investigate the alleged police misconduct.In August 2005 she was reportedly starring in a movie about her career and ordeal, produced by Ashok Pandit. She also acted in the TV series Sulegti Rahen. In March 2006 she was reported to have moved to Mumbai and to star in a Bollywood movie about her life, produced by K K Yadava.The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir closed the case in December 2005, without charging Gupta. Social activist Amit Chouhan pressed for a reopening of the case, concerned that evidence about a pornography ring involving young girls and high ranking politicians was being suppressed. In August 2006 a fresh investigation into the case was begun, on order of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir.
| Aishwarya Rai is among the rare crop of Indian actresses who owns both beauty and brains, qualities that she ably displayed when she took home the Miss World title in 1994, aside from winning other minor awards in the same pageant, including Miss Most Photogenic and Miss Catwalk. Prior to that, she was an architecture student and part-time model whose credits included ad appearances for such products as Prudent, Philips, Casio pagers, and Palmolive. It was her ad for Pepsi, though, that brought Aishwarya instant fame all across India. In 1991, the blue-green-eyed Indian model entered the Ford Supermodel Search and won hands down, even taking the Tulips Miss Super Vivacious title as a bonus. Shortly thereafter, Steven Meisel, the famous photographer, offered her a modeling job, eventually landing her on the covers of Vogue Magazine. The call of Bollywood, the Indian version of Hollwood, eventually came, and Aishwayra soon found herself doing one Indian movie after another for which she received numerous critical acclaim, and for which she has been unofficially crowned as Bollywood queen. |
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