Celebrity businessmen Raj Kundra, allegedly the key conspirator in the pornography racket, destroyed his phone in March after the Mumbai Crime Branch arrested his close associate Umesh Kamat in the case.

The Crime Branch suspects that Kundra’s old phone had incriminating data and WhatsApp chats that could have been crucial in the ongoing investigation. It had informed the high court on Monday that Kundra had deleted his iCloud account.