Ex GM steals software code, arrested

Boyina Venkata Ramana and M.N.S. Srinivas, who are working as software engineers in a Bangalore based company were arrested by the cybercrime cell of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) on charges of stealing the patented source code and technological information from a Hyderabad based public limited company MIC, where they both worked earlier. CID officials based on the complaint lodged by the MIC Company, when investigated have found the software engineers have stolen the software code and relevant information from their former company and sold it to Bangalore based GG Tronics Private Limited claiming it has been developed by them. CID officials have seized laptops software CDs, pen drives from the software engineers.