Video piracy takes bloody twist, youth pays with life in Bangalore

A 32-year-old man, identified as Venkatesh alias KK, who ran a DVD and CD shop at National Market in Gandhinagar was fatally stabbed on Monday night in Vijayanagar police station limits.

Venkatesh was a resident of I Cross, Srinivasanagar near Pattegarapalya in Vijayanagar. Shwetha, wife of the victim, said that four friends of Venkatesh — Uday, Sunila, Prakash and Kencha Seena — came to their house around 11 pm on Monday and stabbed him with a knife. Venkatesh received injuries in his chest, abdomen and head. He was rushed to Panacea Hospital in Basaveshwaranagar where the doctors declared him brought dead.

Venkatesh’s body was handed over to the family on Tuesday after an autopsy was conducted at Victoria Hospital. Shwetha has named the four persons in her complaint.

It is suspected that the murder could be a fallout of a quarrel between Venkatesh and his friends over a gambling den which he was running and later closed down or a CD and DVD piracy racket. Preliminary investigations revealed that all the four absconding accused were residents of Kamakshipalya.

“KK was running a DVD shop through one of his friends at National Market in Gandhinagar. The National Market is notorious for pirated CDs and DVDs. We suspect that he was killed due to rivalry over the illegal pirated DVDs,” said an investigating officer. 

“The exact motive behind the murder will be known only after the arrest of the four persons,” Jagannath Rai, police inspector said.
However, the police did not rule out other motives behind the murder.