Well, the man who gave Anurag Kashyap sleepless nights has been finally been found! The Cyber Crime Police has finally arrested the person involved in the illegal uploading of Udta Punjab on the net.
Delhi-based Dipak Kumar uploaded the most-talked about film two days prior to its official release. Mumbai Police got hold of the guy on Wednesday. The police team visited Delhi after receiving hints about the leak.
The movie which was illegally uploaded by Kumar on torrent was downloaded on a very large scale. Police are interrogating Dipak and are likely to get more leads on the same.
Here’s the official statement of the crime branch officer:
“Preliminary interrogation of Kumar revealed that two separate links of websites of Torrent were made by user robby007. On downloading the movie, it was revealed that the first censor copy of the movie was stolen and was uploaded on Torrent. Our probe revealed that website allzmovies.in had uploaded the links on the websites.”“We believe that there are more persons who are responsible for committing the crime and after diligent efforts and investigations we have arrested Kumar. The accused professionally and illegally uploads the movies on the internet along with social media and makes it viral by preparing links with downloading options. He has uploaded pirated movies on the internet in the past.
We are still investigating the case and our inquiries with the censor board and production teams is in process,”deputy commissioner of police, Cyber Crime, Sachin Patil told DNA.
The leak gave rise to a lot of speculations about Censor Board’s involvement behind this act. The police will be investigating this angle as well.
The crime branch officer said that CBFC's involvement can be a possibility as the leaked copy had ‘FOR CENSOR’ watermark. According to the police, there are more people involved in the leak and the search for the culprits are going on in full swing.
Now, all that remains to be seen is whether CBFC’s involvement in the crime is real and will Pahlaj pay for this
