Mumbai: Agra police arrested an IIT engineer for illegally uploading content from Disney Hotstar on his OTT platform, Supermat. Star India Pvt. Ltd. had complained to the Agra police commissioner on 11 January against the illegal practices of the Supermat application.

Since December 2020, the Agra Cyber Cell has been looking for the main accused, Ashish Dixit, who has been running the Supermat application with his brother, co-accused Akash Dixit.

Both accused registered their company, Dream Stake Pvt. Ltd., in 2020, where both of them are directors.

According to Agra police, Supermat has 17,000 subscribers, and they have partnered with a Netherlands-based cloud server with a Rs 10 lakh contract under which they used to take downloaded content from the Torrent and Telegram applications. Supermat, a third-party app, was running on a subscription-based model with VIP and gold subscription packages for Rs 478 and Rs 978, respectively.

The accused had collected Rs 67 lakh in the last two years from its customers, and currently, they have Rs 6 lakh in their bank, which has been seized by police.

Shahaganj Agra Police have arrested Ashish Dixit under IPC Act 420, IT Act 68 C & D, and the Copyright Act 1957. Ashish Dixit is an alumnus of IIT Jodhpur, where he completed his bachelor of technology studies.

As of now, Disney Hotstar has declined to comment on the matter.