May 13, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):On behalf of the recently launched anti-piracy coalition formed between Hindi and Hollywood studios, SS branch of the Mumbai Police along with AA Khan and Associates seized close to 15000 pirated discs in two raids conducted in Kandivali and Malad. The team found discs of recently released Hindi and Hollywood movies in a bid to counter movie pirates.
On 12th May, the raid was conducted across 7 stalls in Thakur Complex in Kandivali (East) seizing 7000 discs. The team found more than 560 discs of Badmash Company, the major Bollywood release last week along with 968 and 1162 pirated discs of Housefull and Iron Man 2 respectively.
On 7th May, the team raided libraries and a small warehouse near Malad Station uncovering 7899 pirated discs – again getting discs of recent releases.
AA Khan and Associates have filed the cases in SS Branch, VT headed by Sheela Sail, DCP, Enforcement – SS Branch. During the raids the police made three arrests at Malad and four at Kandivali. The accused have been booked under sections 51, 52(A), 63, 68(A) of Copyright Act along with sections 292A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Throughout last week raids were being conducted across Andheri, Lower Parel Station, Malad station and Kandivali across stalls, small warehouses and libraries. Due to the raids undertaken recently, shops in Malad remained closed on 8th May, 2010.
Says Mr. AA Khan, “I am glad that our sustained efforts of conducting raids have begun to show results. Piracy is one of the major problems, since recent times its dangers are evident on a larger scale. We will try our level best to reach to the root cause of this problem. While it would be unrealistic to except it to be eradicated overnight, we have taken our formative steps in the right direction.”
In last few months all major production houses are making efforts to curb piracy, as it affects their revenues in a big way. This is just the beginning towards fighting this major issue with many more severe steps to be taken ahead.
-Sampurn Wire
