The
Chennai
Metro
police
have
arrested
three
persons
in
Burma
Bazaar
and
Mint
for
selling
pirated
DVDs
of
Diwali
Tamil
release
including
Azhagiya
Tamil
Magan
and
Vel.
Central
Crime
Branch
Police
had
mounted
a
vigil
in
Burma
Bazaar
and
Mint
Street
for
the
past
one
week.
The
team
noticed
vendors
Syed
Mohammad
(28)
and
Zaheer
Hussain
(35)
selling
pirated
DVDs
by
hiding
them
in
a
basket
of
fruits.
Accused
Durai
(36)
was
selling
VCDs
and
DVDs
by
concealing
them
in
an
old
dustbin,
police
said.
They
seized
as
many
as
4,375
pirated
VCDs
and
DVDs
and
a
two
wheeler
worth
Rs
26
lakh.
All
the
three
were
produced
before
the
III
metropolitan
magistrate
court
in
George
Town
on
Tuesday
and
later
remanded
to
judicial
custody.
When
police
briefed
the
happenings
to
press
persons,
they
claimed
to
have
been
successful
in
curbing
the
video
piracy
market
in
the
city
after
seizing
VCDs
worth
Rs
10.34
crore
this
year.
This
is
an
improvement
on
last
year's
figures;
the
city
police
seized
about
Rs
1
crore
worth
pirated
VCDs
in
2006.