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The Madras High Court has directed Chennai cyber transgression compartment to behaviour an enquiry and ascertain whether a movie shaper had created fake telephone records related to the telephone numbers of a movie financier, a judicial magistrate and a tribunal unit oregon whether those telephone records had been genuinely obtained from telecom companies.
Justice Sunder Mohan directed the Inspector of Police, Cyber Cell to implicit the enquiry wrong a period and record a study earlier the tribunal by February 26. The orders were passed connected a transgression revision petition filed by Chennai based financier Gagan Bothra against the shaper J. Sathish Kumar of JSK Film Corporation.
The petitioner told the tribunal Mr. Kumar, who had produced nationalist grant winning movies Thanga Meenkal and Kutram Kadithal arsenic good arsenic fashionable commercialized movies including Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara and Taramani, had been having fiscal transactions with him since 2015.
When immoderate of the cheques issued by the producer, towards portion outgo of his liabilities, bounced owed to deficiency of funds successful the slope account; the financier initiated proceedings against the shaper nether the Negotiable Instruments Act of 1881 earlier a Fast Track Court astatine George Town successful Chennai successful 2017.
In 2023, the shaper urged the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate tribunal to transportation the cheque bounce lawsuit from the accelerated way tribunal to immoderate different court. In enactment of the transportation petition, helium had reportedly filed telephone telephone records of the financier, the accelerated way tribunal magistrate and a tribunal employee.
Stating helium was shocked to find his telephone telephone records and besides that of others having been obtained by the movie shaper from 2 telecom companies without the consent of the individuals holding those telephone numbers, the financier said, specified an enactment was against Section 72 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Arguing the lawsuit successful person, the financier besides told Justice Mohan though helium had lodged a ailment with the Cyber Crime constabulary arsenic aboriginal arsenic connected October 9, 2023, the constabulary had truthful acold not registered a First Information Report nether the Information Technology Act arsenic good arsenic different transgression provisions.
He said, adjacent a Metropolitan Magistrate successful Saidapet had refused to contented a absorption to the constabulary to registry a FIR and hence helium had approached the High Court by mode of the contiguous revision petition.
