JAIPUR: Two employees of a software company were arrested by the special offences and cybercrime police station on Sunday for allegedly stealing the data of the company and further selling it to a UK-based software firm.
Probe revealed that the accused have earned Rs 1.5 crore.
Senior police officers of the Jaipur police commissionerate said one Manoj Kachchawa of a Jaipur-based private software company approached them and complained that their employee identified as Agam Makkad was in touch with a UK-based company. Based on the complaint, an FIR was lodged and a special team was constituted to crack the case.
“He had allegedly sold the software, source code and other things on his own through impersonating as a different person. These softwares were supposed to be sold by the company. However, during the lockdown, he developed sources and with the help of his team, he sold these softwares and took payments from the UK-based company,” said Digant Anand, deputy commissioner of police (crime).
He was using the mail address of the complainant and had also made a fake email ID in the name of one Steve Butler of a UK-based software company. “He convinced the private company of UK to work outside the ongoing project and he sold the software by stealing the data of his own company and earned crores of rupees,” said an officer.
Thereafter the accused Makkar also took the help of his colleague Mudit Mathur in the impersonation and selling off the data and software. “Mathur was working under Makkar in the same software company and he had delivered the important data and other things to Makkar to further sell off to the UK company,” the officer said.