JAIPUR: Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Friday claimed a major breakthrough after it busted an alleged data theft racket and arrested a person from Jaipur.
The ATS identified the accused as Rajendra Puri (46), proprietor of an education solution firm based in the city. In a statement, the ATS claimed that they had learned about a suspect pilfering data of students of Rajasthan Board, CBSE and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) aspirants and selling it to others in Mansarover.
DIG (ATS) Anshuman Bhomia said the accused was suspected to have sold data to others including some educational institutes.
“We are trying to examine if there were other suspects involved in the case,” Bhomia said. The ATS said they had discovered a huge cache of unauthorized data of government and private school students from the accused’s electronic devices.
According to agencies, data theft is tantamount to a serious crime. Rajasthan police said the accused was being investigated to corroborate if he had indeed sold data to other organisations for higher profit. tnn
