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Police bust pirated CD ring involving child workers
The Lucknow police on Tuesday claimed to have unearthed a major racket of pirated CDs and DVDs involving at least half a dozen children who were coerced into the crime.
- IANS
- Published: 23:15 September 2, 2008
Lucknow: The Lucknow police on Tuesday claimed to have unearthed a major racket of pirated CDs and DVDs involving at least half a dozen children who were coerced into the crime.
The scam was busted after crime branch sleuths raided a house in the Naka locality here after "one of the boys escaped and informed the police about [the situation]", additional superintendent of police Manish Mishra said.
The kids were forcefully engaged in making the pirated CDs. "They are aged between 11 and 14 years and have no computer knowledge," Mishra said.
The police recovered 224 CD writers, 28 CD copiers, 26,000 fake CDs and DVDs of various Bollywood and Hollywood films, and also pornographic films.
"The recovery is estimated to be above 5 million rupees (Dh400,000) and we also arrested the two accused ... who ran the racket," Mishra added.
The minors used to work from 9pm to 6.30am and were kept locked inside the copying room till the completion of their daily work.
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