The Ludhiana district police arrested three persons on charges of piracy on December 11. The suspects had deceitfully recorded a Punjabi film in their mobile phones from a multiplex and then uploaded it on Internet.
The suspects have been identified as Bhavuk Sharma of Haryana and Munish Kumar and Gagandeep, both residents of Ludhiana.
Amritpal Singh of Mohali registered a case against the suspects. He told the police that he was working as a manager operation in Prime Asia TV production channel. Their channel had recently produced a Punjabi movie “Snowman”.
Amritpal shared, “My friend Vamdev Sharma recently came across our movie, “Snowman”, on the Internet and told me that he downloaded it from some link available on the Internet. The movie was even available on various sites on the Web. We then immediately filed a police complaint. The police identified the suspects. Subsequent to enlisting a case, the police captured the trio.
The complainant also said that the suspects had gone to Pavillion Mall to record some movie in their mobile phones. Accordingly, the police laid a trap and caught them.
According to the Police, The suspects had been doing this since long. They used to rerecord newly released movies in their cell phones. After creating a duplicate copy of films, they uploaded the same on Internet.
A case under Sections 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC, Sections 63 and 68 of the Copyright Act and Section 7 of the Cinematography Act was registered against the suspects.
source : The Tribune
