A very big chunk of Rs.6 crores worth pirated VCD and DVD was seized by Bangalore police on Sunday afternoon that included the latest Tamil film 'Kuchelan', Telugu, Kannada, English and Hindi films.
This is the biggest recovery made by Bangalore police in five hours raid on 12 shops in SP Road. The Bangalore City police commissioner awarded Rs.1 lakh for the team that conducted the raid and seized a few lorry loads of pirated VCD and DVD. 13 persons in connection with selling pirated VCD and DVD have been arrested by SJ Park and Halasoor gate police station.
The Central division DCP Dr.G.Ramesh led the team in the recovery of pirated goods. Bobson Videos, CD Point, Movieland, CD Center, Keerthana Video, Sai Video, SV Video and Vanishri Video are the shops the police conducted raid.
At the time of raid conducted the Bangalore city police commissioner Shanker Bidri visited the spot and said stringent action will be taken against the operators using the Copyright Act. The commissioner of Bangalore city Police is also contemplating on seizing the property of pirated operators.
ACP Vijayakumar, Inspectors Ravishanker, Purushottam, S.Sudhir and Govindaraj were part of this major raid on pirated shops.