Copyright violation: HC restrains cops from taking coercive steps against three Google executives

Mumbai In a relief for Google India Pvt Ltd and three of the company’s executives, the Bombay high court (HC) on Wednesday restrained the MIDC police station from taking any coercive steps against the three executives, against whom an FIR has been registered for copyright violation based on a complaint lodged by filmmaker Suneel Darshan.

Darshan had moved a complaint before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate at Andheri after his 2017 film, Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha, was uploaded on YouTube. Acting on his plea, the magistrate court had on December 20, 2021 issued an order to the MIDC police station to register an FIR. Pursuant to the order, on January 25, 2022, the MIDC Police registered an FIR under sections 51, 63 and 69 of the Copyright Act for alleged copyright infringement.