Singh hired Makhija in November 2020 as a senior manager. Later, she worked as a coordinator and content developer.

According to the police complaint, Makhija began missing work frequently in 2022 without providing an explanation. The company said they also observed that she was not doing her work responsibly and was also misbehaving with colleagues and clients.

On June 20, 2023, the company sent her a memo seeking an explanation of her misconduct. Replying to this next day, she informed that she was resigning.

Suspecting something fishy about her behaviour, the company checked her official activities on the office email account provided to her.

The company said it was shocked to find that between June 12 and 22, 2023, Makhija sent 32 emails with 2,048 attached files from her office account to her personal account. The attached files included the company’s secret and confidential data, including client details, training material, videos, case studies, invoices, etc., states the FIR.

When the complainant company dug more deep, they found that between November 2020 and October 2021, Makhija allegedly stole data such as the company’s presentations, purchase orders, list of participants, course details, payment details, solution files, company’s director’s personal data, signature specimens, documents, GST, RoC certificates, video data and recordings, etc., Singh claimed in his statement before the police.

After her resignation, Makhija gave back her company laptop. On July 5, the company, through an email, warned her not to misuse the stolen company data anywhere and also asked her to refund Rs 1.4 lakh interest-free advances that the company had given her. But she did not respond to this email, said a police officer.

Later, Singh’s company found out that by using their confidential company data, Makhija and her husband had allegedly formed their own company, ‘1 World Siksha Solutions,’ for learning development.

The complainant also found that the accused person also contacted their clients and offered to give them the same courses at cheaper rates. They also allegedly sold some of the data and caused losses to the complainant company, the FIR added.