Nehru Place, Chenoy Trade Center, Lamington Road are notorious markets!

New Delhi's Nehru Place and Gaffar Market along with four other market areas in India have been named as the ‘notorious markets' in the global piracy and violation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), by the recently released US Trade Representatives report.

The other four markets that have been listed are Manish Market and Lamington Road in Mumbai, Chenoy Trade Center and Hong Kong Bazar in Hyderabad.

"Nehru Place continues to be a prominent example of the numerous markets in major cities throughout India that are known for dealing in large volumes of pirated software, pirated optical media containing movies and music, and counterfeit goods," said the report.

In it's report ‘2013 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets' it pointed out that Gaffar Market is rife with counterfeit clothes, shoes, cosmetics, electronics and other products, most of which are imported to India.

Markets such as Manish Market and Lamington Road in Mumbai are semi-organised where unauthorised copies of CDs and DVDs (mostly of Hindi movies but also English-language movies) are sold alongside the authorised versions, it said.

"According to reports, shop operators generally are successful at hiding illicit merchandise prior to police raids and returning it to shelves shortly after a raid. Hyderabad's Chenoy Trade Center (CTC) and Hong Kong Bazar house a large number of shops that sell computer hardware and software," the report said.

"While many shops sell proprietary software under warranty, many smaller shops discretely sell pirated products, including operating system software, electronic office tools, multimedia games, and anti-virus software, as well as DVDs and CDs containing other copyright-infringing content," the USTR said.