Google India on Monday approached the city cyber crime cell to file a complaint against a Noida-based company for forgery and trademark violation, police said. According to the complaint, Royal E-Kutir has duped several investors through its Sector 10-based unit named
'Google Enterprises Private Limited', which also bears the Google logo.
'Google Enterprises Private Limited', which also bears the Google logo.
"Google had sent a legal notice to the firm on September 19, 2011, asking the firm to remove 'Google' from the company's name and stop using their logo. The company had agreed on removing the logo but refused to change the name. Later, in October that year, Google received several complaints that the company was duping investors using brand names such as Google and Tata," said Triveni Singh, head of the Noida cyber crime cell.
The Noida police is currently investigating the case to ascertain the magnitude of the fraud.
In its complaint, Google said the company had lured investors, saying they were an upcoming knowledge processing outsourcing centre (KPO) affiliated to Google and Tata.
"The website and brochure mentions that the knowledge processing outsourcing centre is a joint initiative by Google and Tata. They also offered jobs to aspirants who were directed to deposit R11,500 in the name of Google Enterprises Limited with accounts in HDFC bank and ICICI bank. The company also operated three websites — www.googlekpo.com, www.gkpo.co.in and www.ekutirindia.com," Singh added.
Google also enclosed an FIR lodged by Bhopal resident Ashwin on June 8, 2012, after he was allegedly duped of RS. 19,75,000.
"The company claimed that Google and Tata have started a KPO which does network-based marketing to lure investors. The company also claimed association with Rediff and HCL on their brochure. Initial investigations also revealed that the company had been operating under 10 different names in the past two years," said Jitendra Soni, Ashwin's lawyer.
Meanwhile, the cyber crime cell will register an FIR at the Sector 20 police station today, but investigation has already begun.
"This is a case of cheating and trademark violation. We had sent a police team to the office in A block, Sector 10, but the owner of the company, Chandra Shekhar, could not be found. We are yet to ascertain how many investors have been duped and magnitude of the fraud," said Singh.
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