A visiting team of the Cyber Crime Branch sleuths of Mumbai Police on Wednesday arrested the owner of Torrent website allmovie.com in connection with the online leak of controversial film “Udta Punjab”, two days prior to its release on June 17.
Identifying the arrested person as one Dilip Kumar, the police said that a team of police officials from Mumbai traced him in New Delhi
Acting on a complaint filed by Phantom Films Pvt ltd which has co-produced “Udta Punjab” with Balaji Motion Pictures, the cyber crime branch said in a statement, “On 1/06/2016 at 1400 hours, the complainant was informed that the said movie was leaked on internet on two separate links of website of Torrent.com. On downloading the movie it was revealed that the first sensor copy was stolen and uploaded on Torrent.com by user robby007”.
“During the investigation, it was revealed that website allmovies.com had uploaded the said link on its website. A team visited Delhi and adjoining areas and after diligent efforts Dipak Kumar was traced. He was summoned to the cyber police station, Mumbai, and after thorough investigation, his active role was revealed. He has been arrested,” the statement added.
Earlier, Phantom Films had lodged a complaint with the Mumbai Cyber Crime police under various sections of Information Technology Act and Copyright Act after a copy of the film with ‘for censor’ written on the top left was leaked on various torrent websites. The leak turned needle of suspicions towards Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
On his part, CBFC chairman Pahlaj Nihalani had denied the allegations and said that the board had nothing to do with the leak.