High Court gives police 2 months to finish probe against Daler Mehndi
The Delhi High Court has given police two months’ time to complete investigation into charges of music piracy and infringement of trade mark rights levelled against pop singer Daler Mehndi and 13 others by music company Magnasound India Ltd.
Magnasound had filed a petition in June this year before the High Court complaining of inordinate delay shown by the police to investigate the matter despite an FIR being registered against the singer way back in November 2005.
Justice A K Sikri, who heard the petition, had then summoned the Investigating Officer to the court on August 24 and directed him to “complete the documents within two months of the day of this order and submit neccessary documents and chargesheet before the trial court”.
The FIR was registered following an order by Metropolitan Magistrate Digvinay Singh of the Patiala House Courts to raid and seize all pirated stocks in the possession of the accused persons, including Mehndi.
As per the original complaint filed by Magnasound Director V M Saxena, the popular Punjabi singer and his co-accused were, through their websites, unauthorisedly selling audio and video music albums on which the company had sole copyright.
Saxena had earlier claimed that raids were carried out on November 19, 2005 at Mehndi’s Hauz Khas-based DM1 Musics, though police officials had chose to deny it.
Mehndi and others have been accused of criminal breach of trust, cheating, criminal conspiracy and offences under the relevant provisions of Copyright Act and Trade Marks Act.
— PTI
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