Prayagraj, Oct 24 A case has been registered against two former employees of Uttar Pradesh minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi for allegedly stealing data and important documents from his computer, police said on Saturday.
The FIR was registered at Kotwali police station here on Friday on a complaint by the minister’s media adviser Divyanshu Shekhar Singh, naming Gaurav Mishra, a resident of Kanpur, and Durgesh Kumar Singh, a resident of Prayagraj.
According to the complaint, Mishra worked as a video editor and graphic designer in the minister’s social media team and had access to his digital data, photographs, hard drives and YouTube account.
The complaint alleged that Mishra conspired with Singh, a former member of the social media team, to misuse these resources and steal data and important documents from the computer.
The two also allegedly forged the minister’s official letterhead, it said.
The case has been registered under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Information Technology Act, Kotwali police station inspector Durga Charan said.
(PTI News)
