HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.8102 of 2024

ORDER :

Petitioner has filed this petition seeking anticipatory bail in Cr.No.3460 of 2024 of P.S. Cyber Crimes, Cyberabad, registered for the offences under Sections 66 r/w. 43 ITA-2000-2008.

2. Heard Sri Ponampelli Ravi, learned counsel for petitioner and Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent-State and perused the record.

3. The case of the prosecution in brief is that Arete-IR LLP, an LLP registered in India, provides technology services related to cyber security, serving multiple international clients. Recently, one of their clients received an email containing a Google Drive link to a folder with over 600 spreadsheets. These spreadsheets contain highly sensitive and personally identifiable information of millions of individuals, including names, addresses, emails, dates of birth and social security numbers.

Arete had received this data as a part of multiple client engagements. The petitioner has been sending similar emails to multiple stakeholders, including clients and partners. The email used for sending these emails containing the Google Drive link is akhi