Karan Joseph death: Rishi Shah denies copying allegations by rock band

Underground Authority in the Facebook video in which they levelled the allegations against Rishi ShahBusinessman Rishi Shah who is being questioned in the suicide of pianist Karan Joseph has now been accused of stealing an alternative rock bands music Underground Authority UA the band that rose to fame after their performances on Indias Got Talent posted a video on Thursday alleging that Shah CEO of Crossbones Media has cheated them by stealing music they recorded at a city studio and not giving them credit for itRishi ShahSanthanam Srinivasan Iyer the bands frontman along with Adil Rashid lead guitarist Soumyadeep Bhattacharya bassist and Sourish Kumar drummer made the allegations in a 740 minutelong video on Facebook which was accompanied by a post UA met Shah for the first time in January 2016 when they came to Mumbai to perform at Blue FrogWhen midday contacted Rishi Shah he sent us videos of UA signing the publishing agreement for the music Shah said These are kids who dont realise how they are destroying their careers Please dont help them selfdestruct I have been sitting on this for months When questioned about their allegations he said If you checked your facts run it So far youve published a lot of factually incorrect things Ill address these when the enquiry is over I suggest getting a lawyer to confirm their statements But its up to youAlso read Bandra police finds nothing suspicious about Karan Joseph dangling from windowEagerness to tie upShah had allegedly shown his eagerness to tie up with the band on an international platformHe wanted to finance and promised us a worldwide debut He wanted to take us to LA for a recording but when that didnt happen we came to Mumbai for a week for the recording said Iyer The band recorded five songs for an LAbased AampR company during their stay from December 411 2016 in Mumbai under the guidance of Shah But things started getting bitter when Shah allegedly started playing games to create friction within the band and humiliated its members He is misleading and most importantly he is disrespectful abusive and ill treats people around him We stayed at the same room where Karan stayed and we were threatened alleged RashidAlso readKaran Joseph death Pianist made overseas calls to friends before suicideYou are under meThe band members alleged that as soon as the recordings got over Shah started misbehaving with them He said things like mdash I can make you I can destroy you You are under me He sent us separate texts to make us leave the band We didnt even have money to stay in Mumbai on our own so we decided to leave as he was behaving erratically said RashidLater in April this year Shah tried to rope the band in through Selvaganesh a wellknown percussionist When Iyer went to meet Shah he allegedly had to run from the meeting because of his misbehaviourShah actually threw the phone of my photographer and we literally ran and left the project said Iyer But shockingly just a few days ago the band got to know that Shah apparently did release their songs but without any creditAlso readKaran Joseph death Was the pianist emotionally unbalancedNo creditHe has blatantly and purposely not given us any credit and credited a bogus band claiming it to be his discovery The same song although we changed some lyrics for the American audience that he released under the band SUTRACOMA is a song which we have released on reverbnationcom and Artistaloud five to six years ago said RashidHe is a con man and published our music It is the same song that we recorded said Bhattacharya in the videoReferring to videos Shah sent midday claiming it was UA signing publishing agreements for their music Rashid said This video was of a mock signing for a documentary that Rishi called FIASCO Whether theyre at all valid is a matter of dispute The producers from America got in touch with us as they also believe that the composers and performers should be creditedThey promised us over 50 performances We have lost out on our business as we were dependent on him We also performed for his magazine but never got compensated If he can be so abusive with us he might have been abusive with other independent musicians said BhattacharyaAlso see Photos Mehr Jesia Prateik Babbar others at Karan Josephs funeral