FIR against Sundar Pichai & Youtube ?
The police had initially not registered the FIR. Under the law, an individual can approach the Magistrate Court with a private complaint seeking an FIR if the police refuse to register one.
The FIR was registered on a complaint by filmmaker Suneel Darshan, who has alleged that his 2017 film ‘Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha’ was illegally uploaded on YouTube. Darshan has made some successful films like Andaaz (2003) starring Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, and Jaanwar (1999) starring Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor, and Shilpa Shetty.
Mumbai Police on Wednesday (January 26) registered an FIR against Google CEO Sundar Pichai, along with four other executives including Gautam Anand, managing director of YouTube (which is owned by Google), in a case of an alleged infringement of copyright.