A former assistant of actress Alia Bhatt is under investigation for allegedly leaking sensitive data from a production house to an overseas entity. Authorities suspect a wider network, with digital forensics uncovering a complex data trail and multiple beneficiaries.
Archana Shetty, the Gangubai Kathiawadi star’s ex-assistant has allegedly leaked sensitive information about Eternal Sunshine Productions (Alia’s production house), to an anonymous source in the United States as confirmed by Juhu Police. Though the source to whom such sensitive data was leaked is still a mystery, the motive behind the same is being examined by officers.
Financial reports, details about unreleased projects and documents of sensitive and undisclosed information are said to be part of this huge data leak by Ms.Shetty. Officers are suspecting the motive to be larger financial gains and further proprietary content exploitation.
To add up to her present accusations, Ms.Shetty has made transactions without proper authority under the name of the production house. Archana Shetty is also accused of embezzlement, by transferring large amounts of money from Alia’s personal and company related accounts to multiple unrelated individuals, without Alia Bhatt’s consent.
Further investigation into the bank accounts revealed recipient’s names as Satvik Sahu, Simi John, Chandni Jitendra Prasad Dixit, Manish Sukhij and Shashank Pandey and this has further confirmed the complaints against her of embezzlement. Such huge transactions might have been apparently made to cover her tracks of transferring large sums of money to and from personal and professional accounts.
A case has been filed under the IPC, including criminal charges as she is accused of cheating and misusing the authority of the production house. Data trails of digital payments and bank records are followed and traced closely by the cybercrime team to get any information regarding the source and end result of the leaked information.
Ms.Shetty has also been misusing the company’s authority and property for personal purposes, by purchasing electronic devices like iPhones, iPads and laptops and getting them delivered to different addresses and recipients with no connection to the Eternal Sunshine Productions house.
Even though an official complaint is filed and investigation being carried on rigidly, Alia Bhatt is yet to give a statement about it publicly and any media posts or further confirmation regarding the probe is yet to be addressed by the production house as well. The Police and Cyberteam has kept the reason for such embezzlement and fraud open to conspiracy as it involves direct relation to foreign sources, though the motive behind it is yet to be known.
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