INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has directed the Mumbai Police to constitute a "special team" of officials, who are experienced in dealing
with cyber crimes, to probe into allegations of defamatory emails received by a subsidiary company of the Tata Motors
A vacation bench, presided by Justice SJ Kathawalla, also directed the Mumbai Police Commissioner to file a report by May 22 this year, both
on the team and the progress made in the probe.The bench was hearing a suit filed last year by the Tata Motors Insurance Broking Advisory
Services (TMIBASL), a subsidiary company of Tata Motors.As per the suit, for over a year now, senior officials of the TMIBASL and other
group companies, have been receiving emails from several 'fictitious' email addresses containing "slanderous and defamatory" allegations
against the company, its CEO and other officials of TMIBASL
In a hearing conducted last week, TMIBASL informed the bench that, recently, similar emails were also sent to the official email address of
the Delhi Police Commissioner.Meanwhile, the Cyber Cell of the city police has informed the court that it had written to the Google India
for assistance, and that it was yet to receive details of all the email addresses that were being used to spread the said content."Though
some response is received from Google, the advocate appearing for the plaintiffs (TMIBASL) points out that further emails have been sent to
the Commissioner of Police, New Delhi, under an email address that appears to be fictitious, making allegations against the senior
officials/executives of the Tata Group.Though the Cyber Cell, Mumbai has been investigating the matter for more than one year, it has not
made any headway in identifying the culprits and taking action against them
In view thereof, the Commissioner of Police, Greater Mumbai is directed to, forthwith, form a special team of police officers, who have
experience in solving cyber crimes, to investigate the matter," the bench said.
