EX-STAFF BOOKED FOR DUPING FIRM TO PAY FOR TRIP TO BAHRAIN

GURUGRAM: Two persons, including a woman, were booked for allegedly duping their former employer of around ₹90,000 by using the company’s funds to stay at a hotel room in Bahrain, the police said on Sunday.

According to the police, the complainant company is based in Udyog Vihar. While one of the suspects joined it in September 2017 and the other in May 2016. Both of them left the company in June and February 2019 respectively.

In the police complaint filed in September 2019, the company alleged that it was managing the outsourcing business of a leading pan-European travel company. The incident took place on September 5, 2019, when the complainant company received an email from its accounts department informing the management about the stay of the suspects at a hotel in Bahrain.

The company, in the FIR, alleged that the suspects checked in the hotel on August 31, 2019, and later left the room without informing the hotel’s staff.

The complaint further accused the two employees of a variety of criminal offences, including, stealing the confidential business information, dishonest misappropriation and illegal diversion of funds, illegal use of resources, illegal possession of confidential business information, and illegal disclosure of confidential information of the company to third parties.

A police official privy to the investigation said, “We have registered a case and are verifying the claims of the complainant company.” A case was registered against the suspects under Section 66D of the IT Act and Section 420 of the IPC at Cyber police station on Saturday.

In a separate incident, a 30-year-old man was duped of ₹20,000 after an unidentified man allegedly used a fake profile on a social media platform and asked for a loan in Dundahera village, the police said on Sunday. The unidentified man allegedly used the pictures and name of one of the friends of the victim.

According to the police, Ankur Sharma, the victim, alleged that the suspect sent him a message on the social media platform and asked for the money. He then allegedly transferred him the money through an e-wallet application. The incident took place in September 2019.

A police official privy to the case said, “We are yet to identify the suspect.”