Archive · 19 Dec 2025
Hyderabad Police Gets 12-Day Custody of Piracy Kingpin
The police in Hyderabad have taken Ravi Immadi, the founder of iBomma, into custody for 12 days.
They want to ask him questions about three cases related to movie piracy.
Ravi has already admitted to setting up a Telegram channel called HID Hub to share pirated movies and earning money from it.
He also confessed to hacking a satellite link to record movies.
The police are trying to find out if he was working with anyone else and how much money he made from these activities.
They have taken him into custody twice before for similar reasons.
Hyderabad police have taken Ravi Immadi, founder of iBomma, into custody for 12 days to question him about three pending piracy cases.
Ravi admitted to creating a Telegram channel called HID Hub to distribute pirated movies and earning $100 to $300 per movie.
The police are investigating if Ravi was acting on someone else's instructions and how he shared his profits.
Ravi confessed to hacking the satellite link of Cube Network and recording movies in High Availability-HA file format.
This is the third time Ravi has been taken into custody, with previous custody periods lasting eight days each.
- Who
- Ravi Immadi, founder of iBomma
- What
- Police custody for questioning on movie piracy
- When
- Not specified
- Where
- Hyderabad, India
- Why
- To investigate three pending cases related to movie piracy
- Suspect
- Ravi Immadi
- Organization
- iBomma
- Platform
- Telegram
- Channel Name
- HID Hub
- Custody Duration
- 12 days
- Cases Pending
- 3
- Earnings per Movie
- $100 - $300
- Hacking Target
- Cube Network
- File Format
- High Availability-HA