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Cleartrip CEO Arrested (and released) [Travelocity's FIR Against Cleartrip].

Cleartrip CEO Arrested (and released) [Travelocity's FIR Against Cleartrip]. Mumbai: The Gurgaon police filed a chargesheet against Cleartrip Travel Services Pvt. Ltd based on a complaint by rival Travelocity, the Indian unit of Travelocity.com LP, for data theft and criminal conspiracy. The charges include accusations of collusion, abetment, misappropriation, money laundering, criminal breach of trust and conspiracy. The case will be next heard on 20 July. has reviewed a copy of the chargesheet, which was filed on 30 May, and confirmed its contents with the police. Cleartrip said it was yet to receive details of the accusations. “The investigating agency had filed their report in the court five months ago,” a Cleartrip spokesperson said in an email to  “Till date, we are yet to receive the complete charge sheet along with the findings of the investigating agency. As the matter is sub judice, we are not able to comment further.” A complaint, filed by Himanshu

Cleartrip CEO & Former Desiya CEO Arrested, Released

Cleartrip CEO & Former Desiya CEO Arrested, Released By  Diwaskar Chettri   on January 6, 2010 Online travel agency Travelocity India has filed an FIR against Amit Taneja, former MD of Desiya and Stuart Crighton, CEO,  Cleartrip  for alleged criminal breach of trust, data theft, cheating, criminal misappropriation and criminal conspiracy.  Himanshu Singh, MD, Travelocity India  confirmed to Medianama that they have registered a complaint with the Civil Lines Police Station in Gurgoan. Desiya became a subsidiary of Travelocity following the acquisition of Travelguru in August 2009. A copy of the FIR in our possession reads that Taneja had allegedly passed on the company’s intellectual property, trade secrets, sensitive data, proprietary technology source codes, their entire hotel business model and projections to Crighton including an excel file named ‘Hotels Growth Model.xls’. It further states that Taneja was terminated from Desiya on 19th September 2009. It is also al