HYDERABAD: A 21-year-old college dropout from Patna, armed only with self-taught hacking skills and a flair for coding, has emerged as a central figure in India's underground movie piracy network, according to the police. A recent inter-state special operation by Telangana police, which dismantled one of the country's top four piracy websites, revealed how Ashwani Kumar, who has finished his schooling, hacked into the servers of two leading digital cinema distribution companies. Within a short span he downloaded over 120 unreleased and newly released films, which were then sold to the highest-bidding piracy syndicates across Telegram networks, police claimed.

A Hyderabad cyber crime police team raided Ashwani's duplex house in Patna's Gulzarbagh in Aug, seizing multiple hard drives load

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