pune the cyber crime cell of the city police on saturday arrested software engineer samir inamdar on charges of violation of copyright laws allegedly leading to a loss of rs 100 cr to a citybased elearning firm inamdar was on sunday remanded to police custody till december 6 according to a press release by the police inamdar had been dismissed from brainvisa in 2006 and formed his own elearning company subsequently however he illegally retained possession of brainvisas product demonstrations and their source codes and later tried to pass these off as his companys products to potential clientsinamdars lawyer and friend refuted the charges saying that he was innocent and was being framedaccording to a press release issued by brainvisa inamdar was employed in key positions in brainvisa technologies pvt ltd pune and brainvisa inc us during his stint in the company he had access to its products demonstrations source codes proprietary data and confidential information after being dismissed from service he illegally copied this data and information the press release further said that inamdar then started his own elearning company enthuse technologies pvt ltd the brainvisa management recently learnt that inamdar and his associates had uploaded product demonstrations originally developed by them along with their source code on enthuses official website inamdar was allegedly soliciting clients by passing off the products as enthuses own the press release statedbrainvisa expects to potentially suffer business losses to the tune of us 95 million annually as a result the release added the company has pegged the value of the intellectual property and confidential information allegedly in inamdars possession at us 500000milind pawar who represented inamdar in court stated that all charges against him were false he has been framed in the case there was no need to remand him to police custody we are ready to support the police investigationa friend of inamdar echoed the same sentiment both companies are working for a foreignbased client inamdar has been framed in the case due to the business rivalry he said on the condition of anonymitya case has been lodged against inamdar and his associates with the cyber crime cell pune and an fir registered under section 66 of the information technology act 2000 hacking and offence of diminishing value of information residing in a computer section 63 of the copyright act 1957 infringement of copyright section 405 of indian penal code criminal breach of trust and section 420 of the ipc cheating according to sheshrao suryavanshi senior inspector chatushrungi police station a complaint was lodged on saturday and investigations into the hacking and other charges will be conducted with the help of the cyber crime cell