JAISHREE THAKUR, J.

Crl. Misc. 29553 and 30630 of 2020 Crl. Misc. 7740 of 2021 Heard.

The applications are allowed and reports and the documents, as prayed for, are taken on record.

The applications stand disposed of.

Main case

1. The petitioners herein seek anticipatory bail in FIR No. 29 dated 20.10.2020 registered under Sections 406, 408, 379, 381, 120-B/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 43, 66, 66-B of the I.T. Act, 2000 at Police Station Punjab State Cyber Crime, District Mohali.

2. Brief facts, as culled out from the FIR, are that M/s TCY Learning Solutions Private Limited is leader in the field of education technology and test preparation including classroom and online coaching. The company has been in the business for more than a decade and had developed its own software for imparting education. Petitioner No.1 had joined the Company in February, 2015 as Deputy Manager Marketing and subsequently resigned to set up another company along with Jagjit Singh (petitioner No.2) and one Rupinder Singh in the year 2018 and formed a Company in the name of M/s Exoways Web Technologies Pvt. Ltd. That there was leakage of its software. The complainant got to know from the market that a