The four arrested in the case of Game Of Thrones season 7 episode 4 leak have made some shocking revelations. The four men leaked the episode because one of them wanted to please his girlfriend! The four accused were produced before the magistrate on Monday and remanded in police custody till August 24. Out of the four IT professionals involved in this case, three of them — Bhaskar Joshi, Alok Sharma and Abhishek Ghadiyal — work for the private firm (Prime Focus Technologies) that airs the show in India. The fourth, Mohamad Suhail, is a former employee of that company. As per a report on Indian Express, the three working for the company were curious to watch the fourth episode and hence illegally got hold of it. In fact, one of them, Alok, even shared the video with his girlfriend to please her! While they have stated these reasons for leaking the episode, police are yet finding out if there was any monetary benefit involved in this case. Also Read - Game of Thrones and The Avengers actress Diana Rigg passes away at 82 due to cancer

An official, who was part of the probe earlier, said, “Initially, there were suspicions that one of the accused had accessed the episode as his girlfriend wanted to see it. The girlfriend had then passed it onto others, one of whom uploaded it online.” On the same, a senior officer with the cyber police further added, “While it is true that one of the accused, Sharma, did send the link to his girlfriend, it is one of the angles we are probing. He sent the links to other accused as well,” the officer said. He added, “The investigation is still in progress. However, so far, it appears that they had leaked it for self-consumption. We are now trying to find out who uploaded it online.” Also Read - Anjana Sukhani wishes to be quarantined with Shah Rukh Khan during lockdown — here's why [Exclusive]

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"Of the four accused, Mohammad Sohail was the first one who accessed the episode. Alok Sharma then accessed it and the accused then shared the links amongst themselves. We are now, however, contacting the internet service providers to find out who uploaded the episode online and the reason behind the same,” said one of the officers. As the investigation is being carried on by the Cyber police, they have rounded up to three possible motives behind the leak. “We are in the process of gathering evidence against the accused. We are also interrogating them to find out why they leaked the episode. As of now, we see three possible motives. Either they did it to gain monetary rewards, out of sheer excitement to watch the episode exclusively before its release or to tarnish the image of their firm and cause it financial harm,” said a crime branch official monitoring the investigations.

The incident took place on August 4th when the fourth episode was released online, as opposed to the actual date of release, August 7th. While allegations were put on Hotstar as they are the medium who acquired the rights to Game of Thrones, after further investigation, it was revealed that Prime Focus Technologies was responsible for the leak. Prime Focus was the agency contracted by Star India Private Limited to manage the data, took the responsibility of the episode being leaked from their end and filed a case against the four individuals who leaked it.

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