ED attaches Rs 10-crore assets of filmmaker Shankar in copyright case
New Indian ExpressCHENNAI: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it has provisionally attached three properties worth Rs 10.11 crore of film director S Shankar in an investigation launched under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The PMLA investigation has been initiated based on a case under the Copyright Act, 1957 alleging Shankar had copied the story of the 2010 Rajinikanth starrer Enthiran from ‘Jiguba’, authored by Aarur Tamilnadan. Sources said this may be the first or second case in the country where a money-laundering investigation has been launched based on the Copyright Act, which was recently included as a scheduled offence. ED said the investigation was initiated based on a complaint filed by Aarur Tamilnadan against S Shankar before the 13th Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Egm-ore, Chennai, on May 19 2011.
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