Dear Sir,
My friend was working in the company where he was using company's laptop. During his tenure, many times he used to send emails from his official mail id to his personal mail id because of non working of server or printers of the office. This was his routine job. He had a service agreement with the said company which was not registered with any competent authority and also expired before three months he left the company. There is a condition in this agreement that an employee will not work with any competitor for three years after termination of this agreement without any compensatory clause. In this agreement company had mentioned wrong address of their registered office (different with the address filed with registrar of companies). After nine months of leaving the company, his previous employer filed a criminal case under section 420, 408, of IPC and 66, 72 of IT act claiming that he had copied the data and sold to his competitor. They presented the same mails as an evidence. The case has filed because he is asking his balance amount and giving consutanse to the competitor of previous company. But he is not using the data of the previous company. Whatever evidences have been produced are easily available on the internet. His previous employer only wants to harress him.
Please advise whether this case can be queshed?
Regards
Harish
