A Netherlands-based software development company has filed a complaint against five employees and a former official of its Indian subsidiary based in Noida for allegedly accessing its source code and selling it to a rival Dubai-based firm. The company said it cost them around Rs 20 crore and over two years to build the source code, but employees of its Indian subsidiary allegedly sold it to another firm for “wrongful gain”. “. The accused in collusion transferred the entire source code to another private account under very suspicious circumstances, and from there they unauthorisedly manipulated and copied the company’s source code and shared it with accused no. 7 (Dubai company) and other unknown persons. This amounts to criminal breach of trust and theft of property.,” read the complaint filed by a representative of the Netherlands firm. Noida Additional DCP Shakti Mohan Avasthy said six persons have been named in the FIR. While five are employees of the firm, the sixth is a former official, he said. The FIR has been filed under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and Section 66D of Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 and Section 63B of the Copyright Act, 1957, at Sector 126 police station. Avasthy said: “Investigation is on and the decision on the arrest will be taken later. The FIR has been registered and further legal action is being taken.”
