Hyderabad Cyber Crime cops bust main piracy racket
It’s identified that piracy has been impacting the brand new releases and even earlier than the completion of the primary exhibits, the HD high quality prints are going viral on varied social media websites.
Regardless of many stringent guidelines, none may uproot the piracy menace as a result of the culprits are working from varied nations and thru excessive finish applied sciences.
Within the midst of all this, Hyderabad Cyber Crime cops busted a significant piracy racket that induced greater than Rs 3700crs loss to Tollywood. The cops arrested 5 folks indulging in piracy. Hyderabad Commissioner CV.Anand mentioned ” The racket operated throughout a number of States. The gang was discovered to be accountable for pirating a number of main Telugu releases, together with HIT: The Third Case, #Single, Kuberaa and Hari Hara Veera Mallu, and importing them onto infamous web sites”
He revealed “The investigation started on June 5, 2025, when the Anti-Video Piracy Cell of the Telugu Movie Chamber of Commerce (TFCC) lodged a grievance that #Single and HIT: The Third Case had been leaked on-line on their launch days.One other grievance adopted after Kuberaa was equally pirated.Instances have been registered underneath provisions of the IT Act, Copyright Act and the Cinematograph Act.”
He continued “Throughout the probe, 5 prime accused have been recognized and arrested between June and August – who have been recognized as Ashwani Kumar from Bihar, described because the kingpin who hacked servers of digital media firms to steal HD movie copies, Cyril Toddler Raj from Tamil Nadu, accused of managing piracy web sites and incomes practically ₹2 crore in cryptocurrency since 2020, Jana Kiran Kumar from Hyderabad, who allegedly recorded over 100 movies in theatres utilizing a hid cell phone, Sudhakaran from Erode, who admitted to camcording 35 south Indian movies, and Arsalan Ahmed, who uploaded pirated movies to file-sharing platforms and distributed them by Telegram.”
