On the afternoon of 16th June 2006 Police team comprising of PI Vinay Gaonkar and staff of North Police Station conducted raids on a video library and residence of one Chandrakantha Naik and seized large quantity of pirated video CDs and other equipments used for the duplication of these CDs. The raid was conducted on the complaint of Mr. R.S. Arvind Prasad Investigating Officer Feature Films Copy Rights of India.
The Police team first raided the house of Mr. Chandrakantha Naik located at Sailand Building Bajalkere Mangalore. There they seized 1090 pirated VCDs, six other VCDs, two computers, two VCD duplicator machines, one colour printer and four audio cassete recorders.
On further information Police party raided Gurudarshan Video library at Car street Bajalkeri in Mangalore owned by Mr. Chandrakantha Naik. From there the police seized 1200 pirated VCDs and MP3s, four DVDs and six other VCDs.
In this connection a case has been taken up in North PS U/s 52(A), 63 & 68(A) of Copy Right Act, 1957 against the accused Chandrakantha Naik who is absconding. The CDs so seized pertain to Hindi and other language films and the total worth of property seized is about Rs. 5.26 lakhs.
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