Overview
- Police identified the alleged operator as 27-year-old Anmol Kiro of Mayur Vihar Phase-I, who ran BookBhandar.in and received payments via a bank account named Finskool Education.
- An FIR filed on November 3 led to technical surveillance of the website, guiding investigators to Kiro and triggering a raid at his residence.
- Officers seized 42 pirated academic books from Kiro’s home and later recovered 686 more copies across 18 titles during follow-up raids in Ganesh Nagar and Pandav Nagar, with all material deposited in the police malkhana.
- Notices were issued to Sunil Kumar Gupta, Lalan Gupta, Naved, Kamran, and Hilal Mohammad, with police confiscating a printing machine from a Hauz Qazi press and three printing plates prepared for the counterfeit books.
- Delhi Police described the action as part of a wider crackdown on cyber-enabled economic offences under copyright provisions, with further steps underway against suppliers, payment handlers, and printing units.