Employee of engineering firm booked for ‘corporate espionage’

In line with police, an FIR was lodged towards Rajnikant Patel, deputy supervisor at “Warmth Division” of AIA Engineering, an Ahmedabad-based firm for allegedly sending confidential paperwork associated to R&D associated to warmth therapy to a rival firm of AIA Engineering primarily based in Jamshedpur of Jharkhand.

AIA Engineering is primarily engaged in designing, creating, manufacturing and set up of excessive chromium put on, corrosion and abrasion-resistant castings, that are utilized by cement, mining and thermal energy technology industries.
In line with a police criticism filed by Acchyut Parikh, vice-president, authorized and admin of AIA Engineering, the accused worker Patel who’s a part of AIA since 1994, had entered a secrecy contract with the corporate in line with which he can not expose any particulars of the warmth division to folks from different departments or outdoors the corporate.

“Lately, considered one of our purchasers floated a young and a rival firm from Jamshedpur additionally confirmed curiosity within the tender course of. I knew that the rival firm was not able to compete within the tender. It was then that suspicions rose on our staff and we present in an inner probe that Rajnikant had transferred a number of confidential and extremely delicate paperwork of AIA to his non-public mail id… He had additionally transferred paperwork from different departments to which he had no authorisation for entry,” stated Parikh in his police criticism.

“From January 13 to January 16 this 12 months, Patel stayed in Resort Madhuban in Jharkhand which was supplied by the rival firm. The rival firm couldn’t have made Grinding and Crushing parts with out the R&D paperwork given illegally by Patel,” the criticism added.

Taking cognisance, police have booked Patel beneath IPC sections 420 for fraud, 406 for legal breach of belief, 408 for legal breach of belief by clerk, 465, 467, 468 and 471 for forgery in addition to sections of the IT Act.