Rs.75 lakh worth Pornography VCDs seized

Hyderabad, August 11 (HSN): Customs officers at Indira Gandhi Airport seized video compact discs (VCDs) containing pornographic material in Telugu, English and Hindi and apprehended one person on Saturday.

The VCDs were valued at Rs 75 lakh in grey market.

The customs officers suspect one Kalyan Sundaram, a native of Chennai to be the ringleader and presume to unearth other links in the country.

He was earlier arrested once in Karnataka. The seizures included 12,540 movie VCDs 5,274 porno VCPs and 340 digital videodiscs. The estimated value of the seized items was more than Rs 75 lakh, Joint Commissioner Customs K.B.N. Chary said. The officials are spreading dragnets against the absconding accused.

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