Bombay HC Denies Relief to Shilpa Shetty & Raj Kundra in ₹60 Crore Case

Bombay High Court has refused Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra permission to visit Phuket, in Thailand, to go on a leisure holiday.

The celebrity couple who had been probed into a 60-crore cheating scandal involving their now-defunct company Best Deal TV Pvt. Ltd wanted the Look Out Circular (LOC) against them suspended to enable them travel overseas. The actress and her entrepreneur husband had specifically addressed the Bombay High Court requesting authorization to travel to Phuket on a recreational trip between 2 and 5 October on the basis of confirmed travel and hotel reservations.

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A ruling refusing to provide any interim assistance to Shilpa and Raj was made by a bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam A Ankhad who ordered the state prosecutor Mankunwar Deshmukh to submit a response to the request of the couple. The court adjourned to October 8, the next hearing.

The case was represented by advocates Niranjan Mundargi and Keral Mehta, who sought to defend Shilpa and Raj on the grounds that although in 2021 a case was registered against them, they had travelled abroad on several occasions and always came back to cooperate in the investigation. The couple, therefore, should be permitted to move as the current investigation proceeds, the advocates argued.

The case of cheating was being registered at the complaint of Deepak Kothari, the Director of UY Industries Pvt. Ltd claiming that he was lured by Raj and Shilpa into investing in the venture between 2015 and 2023. Kothari also invested by loaning Rs 60.48 crore under an investment agreement, against which Shilpa had provided a personal guarantee, the complainant alleged.

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Kundra has insisted that he has already co-operated with the investigation, and has appeared before the Economic Offences Wing (EDW) on September 15 in response to warrant.

In addition to their intended visit to Phuket, Shilpa and Raj said in the plea about their plans to travel to other international destinations as well. They told the court that they must go to Los Angeles to work between October 21 and 24 and then to the Maldives and Colombo to expand their hospitality business, Hotel Bastian, between October 26 and 29.

They wanted to travel to Dubai and London, also, in the period between December 20 and January 6, 2026 to meet the parents of Raj.

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