Plagiarism is closely linked with Intellectual Property Rights and Copyrights laws, both of which have been formed to protect the ownership of the concept. Most of the available tools for detecting plagiarism when tested with sample Punjabi text, failed to recognise the Punjabi text and the ones, which supported Punjabi text, did a simple string comparison for detecting the suspected copy-paste plagiarism, ignoring the other forms of plagiarism such as word switching, synonym replacement and sentence switching etc.