In one of the biggest raids in recent times, over 5 lakhs pirated VCDs worth Rs. 7 crores have been confiscated by the Bangalore police on Sunday afternoon. The raid went on for 5 hours; 13 places on Silver Jubilee Park Road were searched for pirated CDs.
Mohan of Anand Audio said that this is one of the biggest raids on pirated CDs. He added there are at least 40 such piracy operators and only 13 shops were raided by the police. He pointed out that if the police had conducted raids in all the shops, at least 15 lakhs VCDs would have been found. He said that the piracy industry in Karnataka is worth 150 crores. He urged the KFCC to come forward to congratulate the Bangalore police in their act which will help in improving collections in theatres.
On Saturday, Niranjan, distributor for Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth’s Kuselan in Karnataka, had called a press a conference and demanded a raid on the shops which sell pirated film CDs since Kuselan CDs were also found in the market. The Bangalore police reacted positively to it and conducted raids, much to the joy of the Kannada film industry.
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