Synopsis: Police raided Ravi’s flat in Kukatpally a little after he had landed in Hyderabad, seizing laptops, encrypted drives, editing tools and HD copies of unreleased films. His cryptocurrency accounts are now under a forensic microscope.

In a breakthrough in dismantling the movie piracy underworld, Hyderabad Police have finally put the brakes on iBomma’s long, destructive run.

The man at the heart of the operation — Immadi Ravi, the elusive mastermind behind the notorious movie piracy iBomma network — is now behind the bars, thanks to a meticulously coordinated operation by the Cyberabad CCS and Cybercrime Wing.

Announcing the arrest on Monday, 17 November, Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar said the breakthrough would “greatly benefit an industry that has bled crores becau

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