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Radiant offices raided for alleged software piracy

Fakir Chand in Bangalore

The Enforcers of Intellectual Property Rights on Tuesday raided the offices Radiant Software Ltd in Bangalore and Madras for allegedly using pirated version of Oracle software to train unsuspected students.

As a result, the police arrested eight officials of the company, including software professionals, and remanded them to custody for producing before the courts on Wednesday. Of the eight, four were arrested.

On a tip-off from the Bangalore-based Oracle Software India Ltd, EIPR searched the premises of Radiant with the help of the local police, and reportedly detected pirated software in both the cities.

According to EIPR director Zaheer Khan, the police had seized the company's hardware and pirated software, valued at Rs 100 million in Madras, and Rs 20.70 million in Bangalore. Later, the offices were also sealed for further investigations.

"Preliminary investigations, conducted by EIPR, had revealed that Radiant Software was not authorised to impart training in Oracle software," Khan stated here after the raids.

Earlier, Oracle Software authorised EIPR with the power of attorney to conduct investigation and lodge the complaint with the police for the violation of various sections of the Copyright Act, 1957 read with (r/w) 420 IPC by the accused company.

EIPR is the first registered company to put India's copyright and intellectual property rights law to good use, for the benefit of manufacturers, artists, entertainment industry, software developers, scientists, intellectuals, and creative thinkers.

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