Anitha Kumaraswamy, who produced the film Seetharama Kalayana starring her son Nikhil, has lodged a complaint with the police against a Kannada channel for allegedly leaking the film online. Mrs. Kumaraswamy is the wife of Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and an MLA.
In her complaint to the Cubbon Park on Tuesday, she said that Seetharama Kalayana was released worldwide on January 25. Some mischief-mongers allegedly recorded the film on their mobile phones on the day it was first screened, and uploaded it online. She told the police that this act had resulted in a huge loss to the production house.
The Cubbon Park police have taken up a case against a suspect, Shashidhar T.S., owner of the channel. He was been charged under various section of the Information Technology Act. and the Copyright Act.
Last week, the HR manager of a media firm owned by the Kumaraswamy family had approached the police after a few employees allegedly leaked content it had produced to an online news portal. The HR manager, G. Manohar, told the police that news clips and reports, which had been filed by the correspondents of the media house, were being carried by a well-known online portal.