A US court has imposed a penalty of one million dollar on an Indore-based textile company for making profit by using pirated software and thereby incurring huge losses to garment manufacturing companies of California.
The company Pratibha Syntax limited engaged in garments manufacturing as well as organic farming with its headquarter in Indore, according to a US court ruling, had reportedly used pirated software without paying license for the same. The offense comes in the category of an intellectual theft.
In a ruling, the attorney general of California, Camala Hariss, on account of used of pirated software by Pratibha Syntax limited, many California-based garment companies have incurred huge losses.
According to report, Pratibha Syntax limited without paying any license fee, had used of pirated software of companies like Adob, Microsoft and others and accordingly earned huge profit by exporting garments to US and several other countries.
The company on being contacted has agreed to pay penalty of one million dollar within a month. Pratibha Syntax limited which was established in 1997 is exporting garments to Walmart and several other branded companies. The company ventured into organic farming business in 1999 and currently helping about 30,000 farers of four states in the country to learn organic farming.