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O nline travel services provider Travelocity India on Tuesday said it has filed a civil suit against Cleartrip in the Bombay High Court claiming damages of $37.5 million (over Rs 165 crore) due to an alleged data theft by top executives of the rival.  The suit has been filed last week by online travel agencies, Desiya and Travelguru both owned by Travelocity, the company said in a statement. "Travelocity India has claimed damages of $37.5 million for the business losses suffered by it as a result of the theft," it said. In 2009 Travelocity had filed an FIR with the Gurgaon police against Cleartrip CEO Stuart Crighton and former CEO of Desiya, Amit Taneja alleging they had illegally procured various confidential information, hotel business database and know-how of its business processes. Last August, both Crighton and Taneja underwent a procedural arrest in Gurgaon and were released on bail. When contacted, a Cleartrip spokesperson said: "Cleartrip believe...

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 Hima...

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 s...

CEO of travel company accused of data theft The chief executive officer, an expat from UK, and director of a travel company were on Monday summoned to the office of senior police officials of Gurgaon police in a case of data theft. A case of breach of Information Technology Act was filed against the duo and two more employees of the same company in December last year. Cleartrip CEO Stuart Crighton and director Amit Taneja participated in the investigation in the office of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Surender Singh. "They were arrested and released immediately as the duo had already obtained anticipatory bail," Joint CP Alok Mittal said. Cleartrip Chief Operating Officer (COO) P.K.X. Thomas clarified that there was no truth in the case against their officials, who were accused of data theft "out of professional rivalry". In December last Travelocity filed a case of theft of confidential and proprietary data and source codes against Amit Ta...

Disciple accuses Kripalu Ji Maharaj of rape In a shocking development, Jagadguru Kripalu Ji Maharaj has been accused of rape by one of his disciples in Trinidad. Kripalu Ji Maharaj heads the Radha Madhav Society, which has around 300 centres across the globe. His followers consider him to be the 5th Jagadguru of the present age and 1st in the last 700 years. Port-of-Spain, May 23: In a shocking development, Jagadguru Kripalu Ji Maharaj has been accused of rape by one of his disciples in Trinidad. Kripalu Ji Maharaj heads the Radha Madhav Society, which has around 300 centres across the globe. His followers consider him to be the 5th Jagadguru of the present age and 1st in the last 700 years. Meanwhile, a Trinadad court has granted him bail in the case. He has, however, been barred form leaving the country for the time being and his passport has been confiscated. The accusations against the 85-yr old guru have been made by a 22-yr old disciple of his from Guyana. The matt...