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9 arrested for selling pirated film DVDs

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jul 07 2016 | 8:13 PM IST
Delhi Police have arrested nine persons and recovered pirated DVDs and soft copies of Bollywood flick 'Great Grand Masti' to be released on July 22.
"Regular inputs were received about sale of soft copies of Bollywood movies before release. Because of recent leakages of movies such as 'Great Grand Masti' and 'Udta Punjab' and on inputs provided by production house Balalji Telefilms, raids were conducted all over Delhi in the past few days," said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.
Investigation is on efforts are being made to ascertain the sources through which the unreleased movie was uploaded on the Internet, he said.
In the Crime Branch crackdown, nine shopkeepers were arrested and six cases were registered under relevant sections of IPC and the Copy Rights Act.
Police also recovered hundreds of pirated DVDs and soft versions of latest Bollywood movies including 'Raman Raghav', 'Teen', 'Junooniat', 'Udta Punjab', 'Sarabjit', 'Houseful-3' and 'Veerappan'. Besides, pirated Hollywood and South Indian movies and porn videos and MMS clips were also recovered.
Eight computers and laptops used in selling soft copies of movies were seized by police.
The raids were conducted in Lajpat Nagar, Kotla Mubarakpur, Malviya Nagar, Tughlaqabad Extension, Old Seemapuri and other parts of the city.

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First Published: Jul 07 2016 | 8:13 PM IST

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