Software firm chief arrested for forging Microsoft products

NEW DELHI - A managing director of a city based software firm, a gold certified partner of Microsoft, and his associate have been arrested for cheating and forgery of Microsoft products, officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said Friday.

“Kamlesh Kumar Jha of K.K. Software Solutions Private Ltd. in Dwarka has been arrested along with his accomplice Kishan Kumar on the complaint of Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd,” a CBI spokesman said here.

The CBI said Jha and Kumar were involved in high-end counterfeiting and piracy of Microsoft Software products by various means. Searches were conducted at 14 locations in Delhi, Jaipur, Dehradun and Hyderabad, the agency said.