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MUMBAI:
Mumbai police, with the aid of the Neo Sports' anti piracy
team, has nabbed Amar Pratap Singh, proprietor of Amar Cable
Network, a cable television network of Mumbai, for pirating
and distributing the signals of Neo Sports to its subscribers
illegally and without any authorisation from Neo Sports Broadcast
Pvt Ltd.
Police
has registered a criminal case and sealed the equipments being
used in transmitting the illegal signals. Local court has
rejected the bail application filed by Singh.
Neo
Sports affiliate sales president Arun Poddar said, "The
network was pirating Neo Sports feed for quite some time and
disturbing the authorised networks, of the said territory;
therefore, it was very important for us to take action."
The
Neo Sports anti-piracy agency camped in Mumbai for a couple
of days and managed to track the cable head-end from where
the Neo Sports signals were demodulated illegally.
Earlier,
iIn order to curtail piracy and apprehend the people indulging
or abetting piracy, several raids had been conducted on behalf
of Zee Turner all over the country in places like Rajasthan,
Chattisgarh, Mumbai and Pune, among others.
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