Pirated books seized

NEW DELHI: Delhi police has unearthed a racket of pirated books and found 3,995 books of foreign and Indian publishers valued at more than Rs 25 lakh.
The intellectual property rights unit of the crime branch also arrested the alleged kingpin of the racket, Dinesh Kumar Shukla.
The seizure included the latest international best-seller, Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling.The other famous fiction books that have been seized, include those written by renowned authors like Sidney Sheldon, Danielle Steele, Robert Ludlum, John Grisham, Jeffrey Archer, Robin Cook, Eric Segal, Frederick Forsyth, Shiv Khera and Deepak Chopra.
These books, the police claimed, are being sold clandestinely in the market at one fourth the original price. Deputy commissioner of police (EOW) Dinesh Bhat said police had formed the team and an investigation was undertaken on a complaint of Akash Chittranshi Associates, authorised representatives of the publishers.
The team conducted a search at a shop in Connaught Place and stocks of the pirated books were found there.
The accused, Shukla, was subjected to interrogation on the spot. Shukla broke down during the questioning and led the police party to the premises where a huge stock of pirated books were found.