Cyber crime police have nabbed a 41-year-old man for selling billing and accounting software of a private firm to 400 firms fraudulently; accused used to work for the firm as Project Leader.
The accused identified as Shailesh Chhipa was nabbed on Saturday who was operating Krishna Websoft India Pvt Ltd from Rama Arcade at Gulmohar in the state capital.
Manager of Technology Horizon Pvt India Ltd lodged a complaint against Shailesh regarding selling the software without procuring authorization from the company. Based on the complaint, police found that the claims made by complainant were correct and registered a case against Shailesh.
In the complaint it was claimed that accused used to work as Project Leader in the Technology Horizon Pvt India Ltd and left the job after which he started to sell software and sold it to 400 Cooperative Institutions without any kind of authorization obtained from Technology Horizon Pvt India Ltd.
The accused told the police that he had developed one company when he was developing the software and later two more companies were formed. Presently one Krishna Websoft India Pvt Ltd is operational. He confessed that as a Project Leader he helped Technology Horizon Pvt India Ltd to develop software and had source code and software with him which he used to sell through him company.
The police registered a case under sections 408 and 420 of the IPC and 66 (44-B) of the IT Act and nabbed the accused. The estimated loss of the Technology Horizon Pvt India Ltd is yet to be provided by the firm