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It was alleged that for generating some false Purchase Orders Neeraj Bhatia gave his VPN access credentials to Anuj Gureja and Gaurav Sehgal enabling them to access the systems of Phillips and prepare false Purchase Orders. Kamal Jain as Financial Planner could have found out about the cheating but he concealed the fraud from Phillips. For that he took an amount of Rs. 10 lakh from one vendor. Kamal Jain had admitted that Anuj Gureja was his friend. It was further alleged that in an internal inquiry Vivek Kumar Jaiswal and Sachin Saxena had admitted to being bribed and threatened by Anuj Gureja and Gaurav Sehgal. In December 2019 Anuj Gureja and Gaurav Sehgal. gave Rs.3.80 lacs in cash to Vivek Kumar Jaiswal in lieu of payments of certain amounts to the accused vendors. A number of other cash transactions took place between these accused. Till July 2020 Anuj Gureja and Gaurav Sehgal had paid a total of Rs.31.50 lacs in cash to Vivek Kumar Jaiswal. Sachin Saxena admitted that Anuj Gureja and Gaurav Sehgal paid him Rs.9 lacs in cash for preparing fake Purchase Orders and causing wrongful gain to vendors for payments made qua their invoices. Sachin Saxena also shared on Whatsapp some details of his illegal dealing with Bhanu Grover an employee of Phillips. But Bhanu Grover did not inform Phillips about the same. Bhanu Grover admitted that Anuj Gureja was his old friend and they belonged to the same city (Bhiwani) and Anuj Gureja had helped him in getting a job with Phillips. It was alleged that the Whatsapp messages of the serving employees clearly revealed about the involvement of the accused in the criminal activities. The Whatsapp 5 of 33 CRM-M-100 of 2021 (O&M) #6# messages were annexed with the complaint.

It is further stated that the accused carefully planned and systematically executed criminal conspiracy to defraud Philips. They first identified various branches/units of Philips which had high profit margins where it would be easier for them to siphon off money without the fear of being detected. Mr. Anuj Gureja and Mr. Gaurav Sehgal being the former employees of Philips exploited the systems of Philips by misusing the SAP ID and VPN token of the co-accused (serving employees), created several fake POs . The co-accused vendors raised fake invoices against these forged POs. and received payments from Philips.

Rahul Chandna - petitioner in this case is arrayed as accused No.2 in the

21 of 33 CRM-M-100 of 2021 (O&M) #22# present FIR. He is the Proprietor of M/s HT Computers, which is in the business of supplying and maintenance of IT equipment to its clients, including the Complainant.

In the reply filed on behalf of the State it is stated that it has come forth during investigation that the petitioner, in connivance with other former and current employees of Philips, raised false invoices against 134 forged purchase orders in favour of his company namely M/s HT Computers, by using the VPN of accused Neeraj Bhatia and SAD ID of accused Sachin Saxena, and thereby cheated Philips of about Rs.10 crores. No work was executed and no service was provided by the petitioner's company qua the said purchase orders. Moreover an amount of around Rs.1.18 crores has been found to be transferred from the account of the petitioner's company to the personal accounts of accused Gaurav Sehgal and Anuj Gureja and in the accounts of their relatives and of the companies established by the said accused persons in the period from March 2018 to March 2020. It is further stated that the whatsapp messages between co- accused Vivek Jaiswal and Anuj Gureja regarding making payments to Vivek Jaiswal for facilitating fraud on the complainant also prove that the petitioner has made wrongful gains.. The affidavit of Vivek Jaiswal before the Executive Magistrate also corroborates the allegations with regard to the petitioner.

In the reply filed on behalf of the State it has been stated that it has come forth during investigation that the petitioner in conspiracy with current and former employees of Philips used the VPN and SAP systems, prepared the forged invoices/purchase orders and submitted the same to the

30 of 33 CRM-M-100 of 2021 (O&M) #31# company. Moreover, by alluring current employees by way of kick-backs, he got payment for such fraudulent invoices released. The petitioner was suspended from the Company for his active participation in illegal activities by sharing his VPN details etc. to other co-accused for creation of fake purchase orders. He also deleted all the whatsapp messages between him and other accused in this case, before attending the internal enquiry of the company. Moreover, the petitioner is the Director in various companies of accused Anuj Gureja and Gaurav Sehgal.