TVS files complaint against ex-employee for cyber crime

TVS Motor Company has filed a complaint against a former employee for allegedly transferring company secrets and business techniques. According to the company, the employee, who hails from Chhattisgarh, sent 10 e-mails, with attachments, containing secrets, business techniques and operation files from his official e-mail to his personal e-mail id. In the First Information Report, TVS said that “transferring of 10 files to an e-mail id which has no relevance to our company has caused losses to business and affected the technological development of the company”. The employee was working as territory manager in the three-wheeler sales department in Kolkata. The FIR, said, as part of his job responsibility, he had access to important information, business secrets of the company and information which were exchanged via e-mail. Mr Cecil K. Dewars, Senior Vice-President, TVS Motor Company, said the company considered this as a “serious breach of trust and a case of cheating…” He said this also fell under cyber crime. The FIR was filed on April 21 at the Mathigiri police station, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu.